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  • 2018
    • June
      • Application's Server maintenance on June 25th 2018
        06/25/18
        Due to some network update requirements, we have to reboot the applications server (Aspro2,LITpro, SearchCal). This operation should be quick and is scheduled arround 3:30PM EST

        Please send a message to the user support if you have any issue related

    • April
      • DNS outage detected - and fixed!
        04/25/18
        Thanks to supervision of Grenoble services from Nice Observatory, we detected some DNS failures. This broke access to some services.

        All services should be back again. We changed some DNS records on 24 april 2018 at 15:00 UTC to workarround some changes operated on the Grenoble University

  • 2017
    • December
      • Server outage
        12/11/17
        On thursday 5th of december, one room of the Grenoble University datacenter get into troubles due to a water cooling outage. Some network services of the university without proper redundancy impacted some of the JMMC service. There was no loss of data and everything was back quickly. Unlickily we al

    • April
      • Server Maintenance on 27th of April 2017 14-15h CET
        04/24/17
        On thursday 27th of april 14-15h CET, our main application server should switch to a newer infrastructure. Website will be available during the maintenance, but some services will be off. If you have any remark or question, feel free to contact the User Support .

  • 2016
    • December
      • Java Application certificates
        12/14/16
        WEEK 50: JMMC's java applications are signed but 2013-2016's certificate will expire at the end of the year. Each applications will be redeployed and signed again. Please contact the user support if anything goes wrong.

      • Ouverture concours CNAP 2017
        12/12/16
        Le concours cnap 2017 est ouvert! La proposition de tache de service du JMMC est en ligne.

    • August
      • Network downtime on Tuesday, 16 Aug 2016 12:00 - 14:00 CEST
        08/08/16
        On tuesday, 16 Aug 2016, the Grenoble University Network should be upgraded. A downtime should occur from 12h00 to 14h00 CEST. Please apologize for the maintenance outage. Contact the user support for any issue.
        (First notification on 11 Aug has been delayed)

  • 2015
    • October
      • DNS upgrade
        10/07/15
        Hi,

        We are changing our registrar for the domains jmmc.fr and mariotti.fr.
        The schedule was not known and the DNS resolution failed during more than 24h :-( .

        Please report your problems so we can focus and prioritize reliability improvements.


        Thanks t

    • June
      • Release of the first version of the Optical Interferometry DataBase (OiDB)
        06/26/15
        We are very happy to announce that the first version of the Optical interferometry DataBase (OiDB) is now ready for operations!

        The current version contains a large sample of PIONIER observations (all calibrated OIFITS since 2011), the data from 8 vizier catalogs, and several years of CHA

    • April
      • PIONIER Data Reduction Software distribution page
        04/07/15
        A new entry dedicated to the PIONIER Data Reduction Software has been added to the Data Processing section of the JMMC website.

        Users can get the PNDRS package from http://www.jmmc.fr/pndrs

  • 2014
    • June
      • New OiVAL version
        06/25/14
        The JMMC OIFits Validator has been refactored to share the same OIFits code with the OiDB. You can now get an overview of various granules embedded in your OIFits.

        Please visit it's web page to check your data and feel free to give a feedback.

    • April
      • Bug fix on the online OIFits Validator
        04/04/14
        OiVal has been improved to display the full information on Safari and Chrome browsers.
        Please contact the JMMC User Support for any web related issue.

    • January
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  • 2012
  • 2011
    • November
      • 2 hours service outage
        11/16/11
        Today we have experienced one DNS outage from 13:00 to 15:00 (UTC) . Apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

        If you still encounter some problem, please contact the user support!

    • September
      • End of one web server service outage
        09/07/11
        One web server hosted at Observatoire de Grenoble was off during the last two weeks. You may get problem accessing some resources. It is now up. If you still encounter some problem to get anything related to JMMC content, just contact the user support!

    • August
      • CDS Outage
        08/23/11
        Dear all,

        As posted today on the CDS RSS feed, they encounter some technical issues preventing them to provide SIMBAD and Vizier services as usual.

        As SearchCal, and somewhat ASPRO, rely on those services, we are not able to fulfill queries for the time being.

        Rest a

    • June
      • Negative visibilities at the edge of the bands
        06/09/11
        Question: "For some channels from the beginning of the band,
        I get visibility values far away from where we would expect them and in many
        cases they have negative values​​. What is happening?"

        Answer: The strange visibilities are usually at the very beginning of th

    • April
      • Application server is back
        04/20/11
        The application is back and running onto one new machine using virtualization. This operation will improve the computing performances and reliability.

        Please feel free to submit one new ticket if you encounter any kind of problem.

        Appologize for the inconvenience
        --
        T

      • Welcome Myriam
        04/14/11
        We are happy to welcome Myriam Benisty, freshly appointed Joint Astronomer at the Grenoble Observatory. She will take in charge the JMMC user support as part of her position's duties.

      • Scheduled Power Outage on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 4:00AM to 3:00PM UTC
        04/11/11
        The university announced an upcoming controlled power outage that will interrupt access to the JMMC application server. The outage, should start on Wednesday, April 20, 4:00AM to 3:00PM UTC. Such outage will shut down the main building of the Observatory of Grenoble.

        During this interrupt

      • Application Server Down During Scheduled Power Outage on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 REPORTED
        04/01/11
        The university announced an upcoming controlled power outage that will interrupt access to the JMMC application server. The outage, should start on Tuesday, April 12 but have been reported. Such outage will shut down the main building of the Observatory of Grenoble.

        During this interrupti

    • March
      • New Amberdrs release
        03/18/11
        Please read the release notes of the new public release of amberdrs V3.0.2.

    • January
      • Web site update
        01/27/11
        - The list of partners has been updated because the LAOG and LPG merged to become IPAG.

        - Some statistics showing the location of downloads/uses have been made publics.

      • Besoins futurs en tches de service
        01/25/11
        Consulter la mise jour 2011 sur la page ddie...

  • 2010
    • November
    • October
      • Power outage II
        10/01/10
        We regret for the second service interruption due to the very long power outage we encountered since monday the 27th of September. We anticipate that this situation could still hold for a few days more...

    • September
      • Power outage
        09/27/10
        On electrical power outage occured this morning in the main building of the Observatory of Grenoble. Some generator will be installed. But thanks to the university and local sysadmins, we have moved the machines in one server room backed up with one electrical generator.

        Please apologize

      • Pre release of the Aspro2
        09/06/10
        Dear Colleagues,

        We are pleased to announce the availability on the JMMC webpage of a pre-release version of Aspro2, our new observation preparation software.

        Aspro2 provides the user with a highly dynamic graphical interface, does not depend on any network connection to work,

      • Aspro updated to Period 87 values
        09/01/10
        As the title says, Aspro (one should say 'old Aspro', since Aspro2 is now in prerelease) has been updated to cope with baselines, limiting magnitudes, etc... described in the ESO call for Proposal for Period 87. It retains however the previous setups back to period 84.
        Gilles Duvert

    • August
      • New database of publications
        08/30/10
        In addition to the list of papers handled by Olbin, you can get the list of papers which cite the JMMC

    • July
      • amdlib V3 released
        07/21/10
        Dear colleagues,

        On behalf of the JMMC AMBER data reduction working group, I am pleased to announce the release of the version 3.0 of the AMBER data processing package.

        You can find it on the JMMC website at: http://www.jmmc.fr/amberdrs together with an installation guide, a us

    • June
      • JSDC - a new catalog of computed stellar angular diameters
        06/28/10
        We are pleased to make the announcement that a new all-sky catalogue of computed stellar angular diameters (JSDC) is now available online on the Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) server : http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Vizi

        The present catalogue contains stellar angu

      • BadCal online
        06/14/10
        The JMMC bad interferometric calibrators catalogue is now
        available online on our server: http://apps.jmmc.fr/badcal/

        Your feedback is very welcome in order to improve this first version and to feed it.

    • May
      • Invisible selection for the color of the file browser
        05/10/10
        If you do not see any changes after some clicks into the filechoosers, some users get a better display using a different color map.
        cp .../yorick/g/heat.gp $HOME/.gist/gray.gp
        After this change, the selected files should be underlined or with a different background color.

    • April
    • March
      • Iper: a simple tool to fit OIFITs data with a uniform disk
        03/25/10
        During the last IAU conference in August 2009, the Optical and
        Infrared Interferometry Commission (C54) raised a few questions
        (get the whole story on http://olbin.jpl.nasa.gov/iau/2009/index.html).

        One of them was :
        "Is there a command line tool to throw at an OIFITS

      • European School in Porquerolles (France) on April, 2010
        03/25/10
        Some JMMC members will attend this school and provide support for training infrastructure. Hope to meet you over there.

      • Short interruption of service
        03/19/10
        One router will me moved onto the university network and could make the jmmc webservers unreachable. The service outage is programmed on Monday March 29, from 17:00 to 18:00 GMT.
        Sorry for the inconvenience.

      • 2010 Interferometry Imaging Beauty Contest data
        03/16/10
        The files of the 2010 "Interferometry Imaging Beauty Contest" have been added to the jmmc oifits file repository.

      • Planned SearchCal Outage on March 15 2010
        03/08/10
        As posted here, Vizier will be unaccessible sometime between 8:00 and 12:00UT on Monday, March. 15 2010.
        In consequence, SearchCal will be unavailable as well during this period, as it relies on CDS catalogs to retrieve calibrators data.
        Sorry for any inconvenience.

      • Service outage on February 22 and 23
        03/01/10
        Monday, February 22-23, 2010
        One cooling system unit caused some electrical disturbances in the observatory building and the server room... Please apologize for inconvenience.

    • February
      • Web page update of the oifits repository
        02/17/10
        The oifits repository has one new layout. You can get more informations on every oifits files. Visit http://jmmc.fr/oidata/

      • Planned SearchCal Outage on Feb. 8 2010
        02/04/10
        As posted here, CDS will be unaccessible sometime between 8:00 and 10:30UT on Monday, Feb. 8 2010.
        In consequence, SearchCal will be unavailable as well during this period, as it relies on CDS catalogs to retrieve calibrators data.
        Sorry for any inconvenience.

    • January
      • Tache de service vacante
        01/29/10
        Dans le cadre de sa mission de service la communaut, le JMMC offre un
        service de "support utilisateurs" la fois pour les questions ayant
        trait aux logiciels dvelopps par le JMMC (outils de prparation aux
        observations, de recherche de calibrateurs, d'ajustement d

  • 2009
    • December
      • Planned SearchCal Outage on Dec. 12 2009
        12/01/09
        As posted here, CDS will be unaccessible from 7:00 to 13:00 GMT on Saturday, Dec. 12 2009.
        In consequence, SearchCal will be unavailable as well during this period, as it relies on CDS catalogs to retrieve calibrators data.
        Sorry for any inconvenience.

    • November
    • September
    • May
      • Bug fix into the new Java GUI of Aspro
        05/13/09
        The Java GUI of Aspro has been updated to fix two bugs of the file transfert panel:
        - Mac OS X users can now copy local file onto the jmmc server;
        - Windows users can now copy remote files which contain colon caracters.
        Only registered users can use this function.
        Visit Aspro we

    • January
      • New job offer for astronomers
        01/30/09
        30/01/2009: Service d'imagerie pour les instruments de 2eme gnration du VLTI:

        Les instruments de 2eme gnration qui quiperont le VLTI (Matisse, Gravity, VSI) fourniront des capacits d'imagerie adaptes aux cas scientifiques couverts par ces instruments. Les consortia ont l&

      • Rencontres du JMMC - 2 et 3 avril 2009
        01/21/09
        Le JMMC organise en 2009 ses premires "Rencontres". Ces rencontres seront un lieu d'change entre les membres des diffrents groupes de travail du JMMC, ainsi que l'occasion pour les utilisateurs des services du JMMC de rencontrer les crateurs de ces services, de suivre des tut

      • New job offer for astronomer service task
        01/21/09
        Dans le cadre de sa mission de service la communaut, le JMMC offre un service de "support utilisateurs" la fois pour les questions ayant trait aux logiciels dvelopps par le JMMC (outils de prparation aux observations, recherche de calibrateurs, ajustement de modles, interfaces de

      • Help us to improve our products and services.
        01/14/09
        The JMMC distributes products and services for the interferometric community. It would greatly help us if you could spend a few minutes answering to our User Feedback Survey(http://www.jmmc.fr/survey/).

        Best regards,
        The JMMC User Support

      • New OiFits file validator.
        01/07/09

  • 2008