Jasmin

2026

JASMIN updates July 2026
JASMIN updates May 2026
JASMIN updates Easter 2026
JASMIN updates March 2026
JASMIN Notebook Service Environment Updates

2025

Support over the Christmas period and JASMIN updates
Introduction to Scientific Computing Course 2025
JASMIN Updates October 2025
Register for the introduction to Scientific Computing Course now!
JASMIN User Conference 2025
JASMIN User Conference - important information
August Bank Holiday Updates - Monday 25th & Tuesday 26th August 2025
JASMIN updates for July 2025
New releases of Jaspy and Jasr
JASMIN Storage migration
JASMIN User Conference 2025 - save the dates
Easter updates for CEDA and JASMIN users
JASMIN Webinar - March 2025
JASMIN: further updates about new cluster and notebooks service
Retirement of authenticated FTP service
JASMIN updates: new cluster, scratch quotas, anaconda defaults removal
JASMIN updates: new cluster and maintenance day

2024

Support over the Christmas period and JASMIN updates
JASMIN Training Workshop
Upcoming JASMIN host retirements
Introduction to Sceintific Computing Course - 2024
Join our JASMIN Training Workshop!
Changes to JASMIN cron, transfer and NX services
Reminder of upcoming JASMIN changes and maintenance periods
New services and reminder of software changes on JASMIN
Important software changes on JASMIN Autumn 2024
August bank holiday weekend arrangements - Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th August 2024
JDMA users - update your client
Software and operating system changes - update 1
Quota issue with SOF storage volumes
GWS public web access server update
Major investment triples capacity for analysing environmental data
Software and operating system updates coming soon to JASMIN
Updates to jaspy and jasr software environments
Easter updates for CEDA and JASMIN users
JASMIN storage issues having wider effects
JASMIN Webinars available to watch now!
JASMIN issue with home directories and related storage
JASMIN storage issues resolved
JASMIN storage issues affecting JASMIN and CEDA services
JASMIN Cloud Survey Reminder
JASMIN User Seminar Series restarting 6th February - 1pm
JASMIN Cloud Survey and Announcements
Reminder - GWS managers survey & webinar on 8th Feb
Latest JASMIN Updates
JASMIN storage issues - resolved
JASMIN updates

2023

JASMIN supports hackathon exploring ocean model data
GWS managers - please complete our survey
JASMIN Support over the Christmas period and updates
JASMIN Accounts Portal Downtime 14/12/23
Changes to Globus on JASMIN
Join our Communicating Climate Uncertainty Workshop on November 30th!
Updates to software environments Jaspy and Jasr
CEDA / JASMIN latest improvements
JASMIN power maintenance complete
JASMIN Conference 2023
JASMIN Update - partial return to service
Updates on JASMIN shutdown
REMINDER JASMIN power maintenance Autumn 2023
JASMIN2023 user conference call for registration (REMINDER)
JASMIN Network Issues
Minor power issue affected some LOTUS jobs.
REMINDER Advance notice of JASMIN power maintenance Autumn 2023
Issue with CEDA and JASMIN services - update
Sustainable computing the UK’s journey to net zero digital research infrastructure by 2040
Advance notice of JASMIN power maintenance Autumn 2023
RESOLVED - Issue with JASMIN GridFTP and Globus transfers
FAAM Airborne Laboratory data use survey
Final Reminder - JASMIN maintenance day Tomorrow, Tuesday 11th July 2023
Interruption to tape services for security maintenance
JASMIN login server login2 currently unavailable - Update This is now resolved
JASMIN updates Scheduled maintenance 11 July and other items
Final Reminder NVIDIA HPC, AI and Data Science – making the most of your GPUs
Update JASMIN GWS IO Errors
JASMIN GWS IO Errors
PFS storage affecting LOTUS
JASMIN updates nx-login machines reboot and tape services status
Near-line archive (NLA) unavailable from 27th April.
JASMIN Accounts Portal - Email Delivery Problems
Vacancy Principal Project/Programme Manager
Change in email delivery from the JASMIN Accounts Portal
Reminder JASMIN mini-patch day Tomorrow - Tuesday 21st March 2023
JASMIN Storage Issues affecting SOF volumes
JASMIN login services are available - issue resolved
JASMIN login services currently unavailable - issue under investigation
Issues with PFS storage affecting some JASMIN & CEDA services.
JASMIN and CEDA services issues
UPDATE 2 - JASMIN maintenance work still in progress
Update on JASMIN maintenance Tues 31 Jan 2023 - window extended
JASMIN GPU webinar, 31st Jan 2023 Agenda and joining details
Update on tape services and storage issues
Vacancy Storage Ops and User Support
Interruption to tape services, update on storage issues
JASMIN GPU webinar, 31st Jan 2023
UPDATE - some group workspaces and virtual machines unavailable
Some Group Workspace volumes currently unavailable - issue under investigation

2022

CEDA and JASMIN support over the Christmas period
Reminder JASMIN planned mini maintenance and other updates - Tuesday 22nd November
JASMIN planned mini maintenance and other updates - Tuesday 22nd November
JASMIN used to show Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded
Reminder - JASMIN planned maintenance and updates - Tuesday 18th October
Reminder Tape services maintenance 8-9 August 2022
JASMIN Reminder “possible” service interruption from 930am until 2pm on Monday 1st August 2022
JASMIN warning on possible disruptions on 18th-19th July
JASMIN Reminder of maintenance work on weekend of 18/19 June and extended at risk period 20-24 June
Reminder of maintenance work on weekend of 18/19 June and extended at risk period 20-24 June
At risk period 16th June, Today
JASMIN Update and reminder of maintenance work on weekend of 18/19 June
Application software for JASMIN / LOTUS is now accessible and sci3 will be rebooted tomorrow at 7am
Application software for JASMIN / LOTUS currently not accessible
JASMIN update on SLURM Scheduler upgrade
JASMIN update on forthcoming maintenance periods May-June 2022
JASMIN update on SLURM Scheduler upgrade - starts Friday 13th May 2022
JASMIN SLURM scheduler upgrade w/c 16 May 2022
JASMIN update on forthcoming maintenance periods May-June 2022
JASMIN 29th March maintenance work now CANCELLED, advance notice of network Intervention 18-22 June
REMINDER - JASMIN further maintenance period 29th March
Tape Maintenance 18th to 28th March
Final reminder - JASMIN upcoming maintenance periods
Further Tape Maintenance 18th to 22nd February
Issues affecting access to CEDA and JASMIN services for some users
RESOLVED JASMIN issue with access roles
The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Survey

2021

Vacancies Head of CEDA, Project Manager, JASMIN Director
Tape services unavailable after 1700 today (14 Dec), network at risk 15 Dec
CEDA and JASMIN support over the Christmas period
JASMIN Issues with scratch and some other storage volumes, limited LOTUS support
CEDA leads UKRI’s net zero computing goals
JASMIN Updates reminder Network at risk 1st Dec - postponed
Jaspy update, new R (jasr) environment, and Notebook Service update to be released on 16/11/2021
Reminder Tape service maintenance 26/27 Oct
JASMIN update 1) Tape service maintenance 26/27 Oct 2) new scratch volume
Reminder System Maintenance 5th October 2021
Brief network interruptions Wed 29 Sept 2021
JASMIN 1) Cloud issues 2) System Maintenance 5 October 2021
New technical blog sharing expertise about managing petabytes of data
Vacancy two graduate roles
  1. Tape services maintenance 13-14 Sept, 2) Globus Endpoint changes.
JASMIN updates network maintenance
JASMIN updates network maintenance
Important JASMIN updates August 2021
JASMIN updates 1) network maintenance 2) elastic tape/JDMA
CEDA and JASMIN support over summer period
LOTUS scheduler issues update
Reminder JASMIN system maintenance tomorrow, Tuesday 6th July 2021
Supporting COP26 hackathons
JASMIN status updates and reminder of planned maintenance Tuesday 6 July
JASMIN helps to predict seabird breeding abundance in a changing climate
Vacancy JASMIN Research Software Engineer
Reminder New Jaspy python3.7 version to be released on 20/05/2021
Reboot of servers for software update, interruption in access to object store
  1. Cancelled Reboot of servers Tuesday 11 May 2021 2) Tape library maintenance
Reboot of servers Tuesday 11 May 2021
Reminder Network interruption tomorrow, Wed 21 April 2021
Cloud Upgrade, May 2021
Reminder Access to CEDA and JASMIN services at risk today and tomorrow (30-31 March 2021)
Oceans in the Cloud working interactively with huge datasets using Pangeo
Reminder Brief network interruptions Today, 10th March
JASMIN System Maintenance - now complete
Final Reminder JASMIN System Maintenance Tomorrow - Tues 2 March 2021
Update to high-performance data transfer services
Reminder Notice JASMIN System Maintenance Tues 2 March 2021
Update Problems with Elastic Tape
reboot of server nx-login2 at 1600 today
JASMIN Sci3,5 reboot at 0900 AM TOMORROW!
Problem with LOTUS batch scheduler - SLURM
Reminder Update to high-performance data transfer services
Job opportunity - JASMIN Software Developer
File corruption issues
Update to high-performance data transfer services
JASMIN helps track the impact of climate change on UK birds
File corruption issues
Reboot of server hpxfer1.jasmin.ac.uk
JASMIN Sci3,6,8 reboot at 0830 AM TOMORROW!
Reminder - Change of server for Elastic Tape service.
Update COVID-19 impact on CEDA and JASMIN operations

2020

Helping users get the most out of JASMIN in 2020
Reminder CEDA and JASMIN support over Christmas period
NLA unavailable from Fri 4th to Tues 7th Dec 2020
CEDA and JASMIN support over Christmas period
New JASMIN website live
Some CEDA/JASMIN Services unavailable
LOTUS/SLURM issues update 2
Reminder JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 13
Short JASMIN outage on Wednesday 4th November at 7am
Reminder - JASMIN‌ ‌Migration‌ ‌to‌ ‌CentOS7‌ ‌&‌ ‌LSF‌ ‌replacement‌ ‌with‌ ‌SLURM‌ ‌UPDATE‌ ‌12‌
Reboot of Globus/GridFTP server 22 Oct 1700
LOTUS reservation for benchmark work on Saturday 17th October from 4 PM to 8 PM
‘LOTUS reservation for benchmark work’ 10 October 4pm - 8pm and 17 October 4pm to 8pm.
Update to opensearch.ceda.ac.uk
LOTUS/SLURM issues update
Backlog of helpdesk queries - delayed response likely
Some sci machines unavailable on Monday 21 Sept at ~0830-840
System maintenance Tues 15 Sept 2020
Reminder JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 10
JASMIN Services Updates
Save the date! JASMIN2020 virtual event
UPDATE Tape system upgrade completed services now available for use
Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage
UPDATE Tape systems unavailable (duration extended)
UPDATE Tape systems unavailable 21-28 July (duration extended)
Reminder - IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage
JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 9
Reminder User survey to gauge needs in preparation for purchase of a new GPU cluster
JASMIN and CEDA services affected by power outage - now resolved
User survey to gauge needs in preparation for purchase of a new GPU cluster
Changes to JASMIN Helpdesk
Reminder JASMIN at-risk period 11th June 2020
JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 8
JASMIN at-risk period 11th June 2020
IMPORTANT Changes to Scratch Storage
JASMIN low at-risk period 22nd - 25th May 2020
IMPORTANT Reminder The first purge of /work/scratch-nompiio is scheduled on 27th May
IMPORTANT The first purge of /work/scratch-nompiio is scheduled on 27th May
IMPORTANT information for ALL JASMIN USERS
Reminder JASMIN maintenance & at-risk periods May 2020
JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 6
JASMIN maintenance & at-risk periods May 2020
Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tomorrow 28 April 2020
Enabling essential climate science research
Update on JASMIN Maintenance 21 April 2020
Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Today & 28 April 2020
Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tues 21 & 28 April 2020
JASMIN Maintenance Tues 21 & 28 April 2020
GWS (/gws/nopw/j04/) performance issue
JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 5
COVID-19 lockdown- impact on CEDA and JASMIN operations
JASMIN2020 abstract deadline extension 16th March
Virtualisation host reboot Friday 7 Feb AM virtual machines affected
JASMIN Accounts Portal down for maintenance - 5th Feb AM
JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 & LSF replacement with SLURM UPDATE 4
Reboot of jasmin-xfer2, overloading on xfer hosts
Issue with jasmin-login and jasmin-sci* machines - now fixed!
REMINDER JASMIN systems change freeze - 24/01 to 03/02
Issue with jasmin-login and jasmin-sci* machines
JASMIN systems change freeze - 24/01 to 03/02
Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tuesday 14th January 2020
Reminder JASMIN Maintenance Tuesday 14th January 2020

2019

Celebrating 25 years of CEDA
Advance notice JASMIN maintenance Tues 14 Jan 2020
CEDA and JASMIN support over Christmas period
Save the date! JASMIN2020 conference dates now announced
REMINDER JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable
Elastic Tape, JDMA, and NLA not available - from 1600 Tuesday, November 26 until Wednesday 27th - at risk Thursday 28th
REMINDER JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable
JASMIN storage maintenance 27th November all services should be considered unavailable
Using JASMIN for the largest ever UK wildlife assessment
JASMIN Migration to CentOS7 UPDATE 2
JASMIN External Cloud Tenancies Network change today
JASMIN & CEDA Services at risk Wednesday 30th Oct
Migration of JASMIN virtual machines - how will this affect you?
Reminder system maintenance Today 15 October 2019
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