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Investigating Current Outage

Good afternoon all, We are aware of an outage on chip preventing people from logging, and are investigating. Please bare with us as work to fix this. In the meantime, any jobs that have been...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 12:40 PM

Account Verification Emails

They are phishing!

Hello UMBC Community, As we approach the Fall Semester, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has observed an increase in phishing attempts targeting the UMBC community. While we are...

Posted: August 22, 2025, 5:11 PM

August Gritty Award Winner: Travis White

Division of Information Technology Outstanding Staff Member

We are pleased to announce that Travis White is being honored for his outstanding work on a major network update to the campus Cisco Webex Room Kits. He is the recipient of the August 2025 DoIT...

Posted: August 18, 2025, 4:56 PM

The DoIT Gritty retriever dog trophy with the label "DoIT Gritty Award"

Chip Scheduled for Downtime September 3rd

On Wednesday Sept 3rd from 0800-1800 (ET), the chip cluster will be taken offline. During this time, DoIT will be making the following changes: •Changing how chip-gpu's slurm allocations work...

Posted: August 18, 2025, 3:43 PM