During the recent CEDA/JASMIN downtime we took the opportunity to make a range of changes, mostly behind the scenes, to make things more resilient and roll out a few enhancements. We’ve rounded these up here to share with our communities, to show how we made the best of the inevitable disruption to make improvements which benefit our user communities and ourselves in our day-to-day operations. ...

All systems are now reported to be operating normally, so JASMIN and CEDA services can be considered back to normal and the recent power maintenance work considered complete.Any problems should now be reported to the relevant helpdesk (support@ceda.ac.uk for CEDA Archive services, support@jasmin.ac.uk for JASMIN services). ...

Most subsystems are now back up with the exception of SLURM (the scheduler used for LOTUS and ORCHID clusters) and Object Storage. Login, (most) sci and xfer servers are accessible again, but any services reliant on LOTUS, Object Storage (e.g some web-based services) are not yet available. Please await further updates for full availability. ...

The electrical maintenance work over the weekend was completed successfully but JASMIN services are not yet available to users. The infrastructure team is now working through the carefully-planned sequence of restarting and checking subsystems before making the services that depend on them, available again. ...

Dear Users, As per our previous announcements, essential work will be taking place this Autumn in the data centre (machine room) where JASMIN is hosted to carry out safety checks and 5-yearly recertification of power supply equipment. ...

Dear Users Due to an issue with the tape library, the tape services including NLA, JDMA and ET are currency unavailable. We are working to fix this issue as soon as possible. ...

Dear JASMIN user, As previously announced, we will be hosting the next JASMIN conference at our host institution, RAL, on the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. It will occur over two half days on the afternoon of Wednesday 1st November and the morning of Thursday 2nd of November 2023. ...

Dear users The network issue earlier this week has had a temporary solution applied but the underlying issue remains and as a result the system still remains at risk. Further work between now and the scheduled down at the end of October will look at the best available options to resolve it. ...

Part of the JASMIN network suffered a failure yesterday evening and the team is currently working to resolve this. As a result, many JASMIN and CEDA services are currently unavailable. ...