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Announcement › PUMA2 & ARCHER2 Outage

PUMA2 & ARCHER2 will be unavailable between Friday 29th August & Monday 15th September 2025 Read More ›

Announcement › IMPORTANT: Retirement of JASMIN Gridftp server

Use of Gridftp for data transfer in UM Workflows is being replaced with Globus. All users, currently using Gridftp, must modify their suites to use Globus for data transfer between ARCHER2 and JASMIN. Read More ›

Announcement › ARCHER2 File copy failures

We have been alerted to a problem copying files on the ARCHER2 /work/n02/n02 file system. The problem is associated with the python shutil file copy functions and results in incomplete file copying. Read More ›

PUMA2 › Transition to PUMA2

We have just launched our new server, PUMA2, hosted at ARCHER2. Rose/cylc users should move over to the new system as soon as possible. Read More ›

Training › UM Introduction Course

NCAS CMS will be delivering a 3-day course on 28-30 November 2023, introducing new users to the Met Office Unified Model with Rose/Cylc. Read More ›

ARCHER2 › OS upgrade - Unified Model

Details of changes required to UM suites following ARCHER2 OS Upgrade Read More ›

ARCHER2 › Major Software Upgrade

Important information for UM users following return to service of ARCHER2. Read More ›

PUMA › Transition to new PUMA

Due primarily to the impending retirement of cloud infrastructure within JASMIN we are moving users to a new server called pumanew. Here you will find information on how to log in to the new server and restart any Rose/Cylc suites. Read More ›

Training › UM Introduction Course

NCAS CMS will be delivering a 3-day course on 14-16 December 2022, introducing new users to the Met Office Unified Model with Rose/Cylc. Read More ›

Announcement › New CMS Website

Welcome to the new NCAS-CMS website. Read More ›

Model Workflows › Data Transfer between ARCHER2 and JASMIN

Data Transfer using GridFTP is now possible between ARCHER2 and JASMIN using the serial nodes Read More ›

Unified Model › UM12.2 installed on ARCHER2

The latest UM release (vn12.2) is now available on ARCHER2 Read More ›

Announcement › PUMA offline

PUMA has suffered a catastrophic issue and the current server has had to be taken offline permanently. We have replaced it with a temporary server, PumaTest, whilst we await the arrival of new hardware. Read More ›