JASMIN workshop

Dates: February 262025
Location: National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Fairbairn House, University of Leeds

Registrations are now open for this event

This event is a 1-day, hands-on, beginners training workshop for users of JASMIN. It is aimed at novice to intermediate users who wish to further their JASMIN knowledge.

Attendees will participate in a range of hands-on task-based exercises that will increase familiarity with the JASMIN environment and teach best practice.

The resources are freely available on GitHub. The virtual workshop consists of self-guided time for working through the exercises at your own pace, alongside real-time support and interaction with the JASMIN experts. The exercises covered in this workshop are:

ex01 – Connecting to JASMIN
ex02 – Interactive computing using a sci server
ex03 – Transferring and sharing data
ex04 – Extracting a variable from a file in the CEDA Archive
ex05 – Batch computing – running a script on LOTUS
ex09 – Using Jupyter Notebooks on JASMIN

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How to apply

Register your interest to attend

Complete the registration form

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Learning outcomes

Students will learn:

How to connect to JASMIN from your own computer

How to execute a computing task from an interactive command line and understand what computing resources this uses

How to transfer data to/from JASMIN

How to access and process data from the CEDA Archive (on JASMIN)

How to use scripts to automate tasks and run them on the LOTUS batch cluster

How to use the JASMIN Notebook Service to read, process and visualise data

Prerequisites

The workshop does assume some basic knowledge listed below. You may struggle to work on JASMIN without a basic knowledge of these topics:

Using a command-line (also known as terminal or shell) environment to execute commands to carry out tasks. If you have only ever used a computer in “point-and-click” mode, for example in Windows or MacOS, you will need to learn some basics about using command-line tools. Information about this can be found in Exercise 00 of the workshop materials, which registered participants should complete before attendance at the workshop itself.

Concepts such as “client”, “server”, and an understanding that particular protocols (or methods) enable you to connect from your local machine (i.e. your laptop or desktop) to a remote machine and run commands on it.

Basic linux commands for using files and directories. Use these questions to test whether you have the necessary Linux knowledge. If you are not familiar with these topics, please look at this online tutorial from Software Carpentry and Linux Journey site. If you would like to try running the commands in the tutorial interactively, please follow the instructions to install Git for Windows on your computer.

Teaching staff

The workshop will be led by staff from our Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) – who co-manage the JASMIN infrastructure.

Course schedule

This is a 1-day virtual workshop – 09:00-16:00 GMT.

Attendees will be expected to complete some pre-workshop tasks to enable them to join the workshop efficiently (see the prerequisites section). If you have any questions, please contact support@jasmin.ac.uk.

Costs

There is no charge for attending this workshop.

Travel and Accommodation

Accommodation is not provided as part of the course and students should arrange their own. Students are responsible for arranging and paying for their own transport to and from the course.