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February 24, 2026 Scheduled Downtime Concluded

To all chip users, The scheduled downtime for today has concluded. A few compute nodes are still in the "drain" state. This is expected as the system slowly reboots all compute notes not...

Posted: February 24, 2026, 5:38 PM

Storage System Performance Update

To all chip users, The DoIT Research Computing & Data (RCD) Team is aware of the storage system performance issues that have impacted the chip cluster since earlier this month. For some...

Posted: February 20, 2026, 5:22 PM

Scheduled Downtime Tuesday February 24, 2026

To all chip users, The chip cluster will be inaccessible for a few hours starting on Thursday Feb 24th at 0800ET. This downtime is to patch a security vulnerability recently reported by slurm....

Posted: February 17, 2026, 5:40 PM

Scale-Up: The HPC & AI Tutorial Series

From access to AI master the chip HPC within one semester

All sessions in hybrid: ENGR 102 for in-person session and online via WebEx 1300ET - 1400ET 1400ET - 1430ET for Office Hours The Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science (ScaleS),...

Posted: February 11, 2026, 5:11 PM

Read/Write of Files on chip Back to Normal

All chip users, The I/O performance issues experienced by many users earlier today have been resolved. We apologize for any lost time and impacts to productivity. Please resume normal...

Posted: February 9, 2026, 8:24 PM