JASMIN Conference 2023

Posted on November 1, 2023  (Last modified on February 29, 2024) • 4 min read • 690 words

The JASMIN User Conference 2023. Attendees are invited to Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to hear the latest updates on JASMIN and share user highlights.

We will be hosting the next JASMIN conference at our host institute on the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. It will occur over two half days on the afternoon of Wednesday 1 and the morning of Thursday 2 November 2023.

It’s been a long time since we last ran an in-person conference. Lots has changed with JASMIN and within the user community since then. Now is the perfect time to get everyone together again, share recent experiences, updates and changes, whilst strengthening the user community and discussing the future.

The purpose of the conference is to:

• Strengthen the community and enable sharing of experience and expertise

• Get some feedback from users and provide an opportunity to discuss the feedback

• Discuss the question: where does the community want us to go in the future?

In previous years, the JASMIN user conference has been a 1 or 2 day event - usually in person, at the Harwell Campus. It has consisted of a mixture of science talks from users, update presentations from the JASMIN team, breakout discussions and networking time.

If you are interested in hearing more about how JASMIN can support your research, then this is a great opportunity to learn more, meet the team and other members of the user community.

Some of the user highlight talks you can expect are shown below:

• JASMIN Object Storage: Optimizing Performance for Climate Research, Amulya Chevturi and Matt Brow, CEH

• Simple Loss Model for European Windstorms, Dhirendra Kumar, Reading university

• Implementing EOCIS services in Jasmin’s External Cloud, Niall McCarroll, Reading University

• Use of JASMIN as a collaboration platform for the Met Office atmospheric dispersion model, Benjamin Drummond, The Met Office

• Using the JASMIN Object Store and Cloud to Enable Oceanographic Research, Colin Sauze

• Climate Modelling in the NERC CANARI science programme, Reinhard Schiemann, Reading university

• Operational forecasting for the WesCon WOEST campaign, Laurent Marker, NCAS

Programme  

See also venues, below.

Day 1 Wednesday 1st November  

Time		Venue	Recording	Slides
12:15 - 13:15	Arrivals & Registration. Lunch provided from 12:15	CR12/13, building R68
13:15 - 13:30	Welcome & Opening	R22 Lecture Theatre
13:30 - 14:15	Session 1: JASMIN Update	R22 Lecture Theatre
14:15 - 15:30	Session 2: User Highlights #1	R22 Lecture Theatre
	JASMIN Object Storage: Optimizing Performance for Climate Research, Amulya Chevturi and Matt Brown
	High Resolution Loss Modeling for European Windstorms, Dhirendra Kumar
	Implementing EOCIS services in Jasmin’s External Cloud, Niall McCarroll
	Use of JASMIN as a collaboration platform for the Met Office atmospheric dispersion model, Benjamin Drummond
15:30 - 16:00	Refreshments	CR12/13, building R68
16:00 - 17:00	Session 3: User Feedback & Future Requirements Discussion	CR12/13, building R68
17:00 - 18:00	Networking / drinks	R22 coffee lounge
18:00	Evening meal provided: hot buffet	R22 coffee lounge

Day 2 Thursday 2nd November  

Time		Venue	Recording	Slides
08:45 - 09:00	Arrivals. Tea/coffee available	R22 coffee lounge
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome Back	R22 Lecture Theatre
09:15 - 10:15	Session 4: New JASMIN tools and services	R22 Lecture Theatre
	The Near-Line Data Store, Jack Leland
	JASMIN Cloud Update, Matt Jones & Matt Pryor
	Dask on JASMIN, Alex Manning
	Group Workspace Scanner, Alex Manning
10:15 - 11:15	Session 5: User Highlights #2	R22 Lecture Theatre
	Using the JASMIN Object Store and Cloud to Enable Oceanographic Research, Colin Sauze
	Climate Modelling in the NERC CANARI science programme, Reinhard Schiemann
	Operational forecasting for the WesCon WOEST campaign,  Laurents Marker
11:15 - 11:45	Refreshments	CR12/13, building R68
11:45 - 12:45	Session 6: Net zero and environmental sustainability	CR12/13, building R68
12:45 - 13:00	Wrap-up & Close of JASMIN2023	CR12/13, building R68
13:00	Lunch provided	CR12/13, building R68

Venues  

See RAL Campus Map of conference rooms  .

• R22 is the building housing the RAL Pickavance lecture theatre marked LT, with an adjacent coffee lounge).
• CR12/13 is a large meeting room on the ground floor of Building R68, marked 12/13 on the opposite side of the quad from R22, behind the R112 Visitor Centre
• There will be signs posted around site to help you!