2025 Week 32

As always there’s lots going and it’s never all covered in the weeknotes, here’s some of the latest!

NRFA data ingested and plottable!

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this isn’t quite released but it’s a huge milestone for getting a third network of data into our systems. The COSMOS and FDRI data systems are both very similar, NRFA is quite a bit different in the way it’s ingested and introduces some new concepts to our code base. There was a huge amount of work involved in getting the NRFA data to this stage, it’s still in development but as you can see from the screenshot we are very close to getting this released.

Hartree Visit

Some of us from UKCEH travelled to STFC Hartree last week for some cross org knowledge sharing/networking. It was a great day in warrington, some key insights

IOT HUB

Hartree worked on a similar project with SMDH to FDRI’s IOT management, where they are managing 100’s of IOT devices for different users using AWS IOT core. They felt at that scale (same as FDRI scale) the need to build custom management platforms ontop of IOT core, we were thinking we might need this and it was great to get another viewpoint.

AWS Landing Zone/Control Tower Setup

Hartree currently mostly work with corporate clients, building projects in AWS accounts and then handing over the AWS account at the end of the project. CEH are quite different but they had some good insights into using control tower effectively across many accounts.

New Supercompute capacity

Hartree Centre have a new super computer available soon with H100’s, it’s paid for and aimed at industry users but could be utilised by UKCEH if we have the business case.

Simplified diagram

Untitled Diagram drawio

As part of the visit, we presented some of the FDRI work here’s a simplified overview from the slide deck. Original overview.

End to End Testing of the processor

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We now have data passing through our processor and being written out the otherside. Many things are still missing and work in progress but with this milestone, we are now able to write end to end tests of the pipeline. This should help us on the way to create a world class network agnostic sensor data pipeline.