An issue with PFS storage volumes is currently being investigated with the vendor but may be affecting access to the following storage volumes used by CEDA and JASMIN services: ...

Dear Users Some JASMIN and CEDA services have been affected by power supply instabilities overnight which have resulted in some systems being rebooted. Services are recovering. ...

We have several new exciting job opportunities to join our team. Further details at the link below. Head of Earth Observation deadline: 26 February 2023 Principal Programme/Project Manager deadline: 26 February 2023 Technical Manager deadline: 26 February 2023 Assistant Environmental Data Scientist deadline: 5 March 2023 Scientific Programming and Outreach Graduate deadline: 5 March 2023 Please contact the helpdesk if you need any additional information. ...

Dear users, Maintenance work is still in progress today. Parallel File System (PFS) Storage A second phase of the upgrade is now likely to be postponed to another date. PFS storage is running, but at reduced performance. This affects some CEDA Archive services, group workspaces with /gws/pw/j07 paths, /work/xfc and /work/scratch-pw[2,3] volumes The old /work/scratch-pw volume should no longer be used and will be physically removed shortly. LOTUS batch processing cluster: a reservation will remain in place until later today. An announcement will be made when this is lifted. In summary: while many systems are back in operation, there is more work to be completed so in order to avoid disruption to their work, users are advised to avoid resuming work on the system until further notice. ...

Scheduled maintenance work today has progressed well but some tasks will require extending the maintenance window into tomorrow Wednesday 1st February 2023. ...

Dear JASMIN user, We will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday 31st January 2023 at 10:30 about JASMIN’s new GPU cluster, ORCHID. The event will provide information about ORCHID itself, as well as hearing from recent test users about their experiences with it. Users of other research GPU clusters will also talk about their use cases and experience. ...

Interruption to tape services (including week of 16-20 Jan) The tape library is now functioning but with only one robot so performance is reduced. Please avoid using for now, as any jobs remaining over the weekend will likely need to be stopped ahead of scheduled maintenance due start on Monday 16th Jan for four days. Tape services should therefore be considered at reduced performance for now, but fully unavailable for most/all of next week. This affects Elastic Tape, JDMA, and Near-Line Archive (NLA) services. ...

We have been busy preparing a schedule of events for the final 6 months of the UKRI Net Zero Digital Research Infrastructure Scoping Project with the aims of sharing findings, gathering further evidence and gaining greater consensus. Details of our first few events are below. Please register to attend and/or share widely with your networks! Further events will be announced in due course. ...

We have a new exciting job opportunity to join our team. Further details at the link below. Storage Ops and User Support (deadline - 29 January 2023) Please contact the helpdesk if you need any additional information. ...