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20260602 Downtime Announcement

To all chip users,   On Tuesday June 2nd, the chip cluster will be inaccessible during business hours starting at 0800ET. This downtime will be to apply critical security patches, and to...

Posted: May 22, 2026, 1:39 PM

April HPCF Newsletter

Hi everyone, I'm writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF and other Research Computing projects currently undertaken by DoIT.  Summary Critical Vulnerability Patched...

Posted: May 5, 2026, 10:20 AM

Downtime Complete

To all users, We have successfully patched a critical vulnerability on the system. Jobs that were running were cancelled. We understand this is frustrating and we sincerely apologize for the...

Posted: April 30, 2026, 8:37 PM

Emergency Downtime: Critical Vulnerability

To all users: We will be taking an emergency downtime to patch a critical vulnerability that was announced this morning. During this time users will not be able to login. You should also expect...

Posted: April 30, 2026, 3:29 PM

Storage System Performance Update

To all chip users, The DoIT Research Computing & Data (RCD) Team is continuing to work on the storage system performance issues that have been impacting the chip cluster since early February....

Posted: April 10, 2026, 6:35 PM

Storage System Performance Update

To all chip users, The DoIT Research Computing & Data (RCD) Team is continuing to work on the storage system performance issues that have been impacting the chip cluster since early February....

Posted: April 3, 2026, 6:58 PM

REMINDER: RRStor and ada storage maintenance

To all users, A reminder that we are beginning our scheduled downtime for the storage servers for both ada and RRStor. During this time, ada-rstor storage (volumes under /umbc/ada) will be...

Posted: March 31, 2026, 9:24 AM

chip access restored

To all chip users, The RRStor filesystem has been restored. We thank you for you patience while we worked on this issue.  If you notice any further complications, please send an RT ticket to...

Posted: March 30, 2026, 1:57 PM

Unscheduled Downtime

To all chip users, We are currently aware of an issue that is preventing users from logging in and making use of network mounted storage from the RRstor system. We are investigating and will...

Posted: March 30, 2026, 9:50 AM

Storage System Performance Update

To all chip users, The DoIT Research Computing & Data (RCD) Team is continuing to work on the storage system performance issues that have been impacting the chip cluster since early...

Posted: March 27, 2026, 5:35 PM