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Recap of SIG Subcommittee Meetings

Brief recap of the RCA-SIG meetings this past month

This posting is meant as a brief recap of the RCA-SIG meetings that have occured this month. SIG-GPU Subcommittee met Sept 8. SIG-CPU Subcommittee met Sept 11. SIG-UE (User Experience) met Sept...

Posted: September 23, 2026, 10:37 AM

SIG User-Experience meetings to resume

As a continued part of the Shared Infrastructure Governance which advises campus endeavors around research computing, we are pleased to continue the User Experience Committee dedicated to...

Posted: September 9, 2026, 3:19 PM

HPC Drop-in office hours

To all chip users, We are pleased to announce that the High-Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) is launching new drop-in office hours to provide more direct support for the chip cluster...

Posted: September 1, 2026, 3:08 PM

August HPCF Newsletter

Happy end of August everyone! I'm writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF and other Research Computing projects currently undertaken by DoIT during the month of August....

Posted: August 31, 2026, 3:18 PM

August 25th chip and RRStor Downtime Completed

To all chip users, The downtime for the chip cluster scheduled for August 25th has been successfully completed, and the cluster is now back online and accessible. We appreciate your patience...

Posted: August 25, 2026, 4:42 PM

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