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OIT had an outage last night at the HPCRC. We are working this morning to bring servers back online. Email is back online. 5/28/2023 8:45AM Web servers are back online 5/28/2023 9:00AM

Good morning. You may notice that CS systems have had a significant outage overnight. This was due to major power problems at the campus data center facility at Forrestal. All of our systems in the HPCRC were unexpectedly powered off and suffered various other power effects throughout the evening and night, and some did not …

[downtime] Major Outage – Unplanned Power Failure in HPCRC Read More »

Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 (08:00-10:00) Who is affected: All users of CS Department computing facilities and services, including cycles, ionic, web services, email, DNS, and wired networking. What is happening: During this window, the core switch handling CS Department network traffic at the HPCRC will be replaced. The actual outage time for any particular …

[downtime] CS Network Downtime, Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 08:00-10:00 Read More »

The email server upgrade scheduled for this morning has run into unexpected issues. As a result, email service is not working properly. We are working to correct the situation as quickly as possible, and will update here as new information becomes available. Update 08:57 – We continue to work to recover the mail systems, but …

Email Service Outage *Unplanned Delay* Read More »

Today is the day for this scheduled power shutdown. Please see the below announcement and remember to power down and unplug any and all equipment you control in the CS Building or Friend Center before ending your day today! Thanks for your time and attention. Sincerely, CS Staff —– Forwarded Message —– From: \”csstaff\” To: …

[downtime] TONIGHT: CS Building Power Outage, Monday, March 13, Read More »

Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023 (07:00-09:00) Who is affected: Users of CS Department email services What is happening: During this window, the CS Department email servers will be upgraded. The actual outage for any given account will be relatively brief, but the overall work may be longer. The outage for any particular account may occur …

[downtime] CS Email Downtime, Thursday, March 16, 2023, 07:00-09:00 Read More »

This is a reminder that we are ONE WEEK away from this scheduled power shutdown. Please see the below announcement and ensure you have a plan to power down and unplug any and all equipment you control in the CS Building or Friend Center before the start of the outage on Monday night. Thanks for …

[downtime] REMINDER: CS Building Power Outage, Monday, March 13, Read More »

Date: Monday, March 13, 2023 (22:00-02:00) Who is affected: ALL users and occupants of the CS Building (35 Olden St) and Friend Center What is happening: From 22:00 (10PM) until 02:00 (2AM) on the night of Monday, March 13, 2023, ALL power to the Computer Science building and the Friend Center will be cut. Emergency …

[downtime] CS Building Power Outage, Monday, March 13, 2023, Read More »

Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 (06:00-10:00) Who is affected: All users of the CS Department Beowulf high performance computing cluster, known as ionic. All users of the CS Staff-managed public login systems, including the cycles, courselab, and armlab systems. What is happening: Ionic nodes will have Nvidia, Cuda, and kernel drivers updated to fix GPU-related …

[downtime] CS Ionic/Cycles System Downtime, Tuesday, January 24, Read More »

Good morning, Following up on the below downtime/upgrade announcement, it is important to note that this upgrade will bring a couple of significant changes to our project web server. Specifically, PHP on this server will be upgraded from version 5.6.25 to version 8.0.13, and Phusion Passenger, the system which allows for support of web application …

[downtime] IMPORTANT – Project Web Server Upgrade 2022-08-09 Read More »