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Issue with some 2020 GPU Nodes on chip

To all chip-gpu users, Following up on our previous downtime communication, the majority of the chip cluster is back online and operating normally. However, we are experiencing an ongoing...

Posted: February 26, 2026, 8:53 AM

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

Docusign Form Server Downtime - Monday, Feb 23 at 9 PM

To facilitate a rescheduled server migration, the Docusign Enterprise Forms server (docusign.umbc.edu) will be offline on Monday, February 23 from approximately 9-10 PM EST. During this time,...

Posted: February 23, 2026, 4:48 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

Angela Katenkamp is 20th Faculty to Earn QM Certification since 2021

4th course from Psychology to receive the QM mark

Assistant teaching professor Dr. Angela Katenkamp became the 20th faculty member to earn Quality Matters (QM) certification for PSYC 200 (Developmental Psychology) as part of the Quality Matters...

Posted: February 19, 2026, 7:01 AM

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Docusign Form Server Downtime - Wednesday, Feb 18 at 8 PM

To facilitate a server migration, the Docusign Enterprise Forms server (docusign.umbc.edu) will be offline on Wednesday, February 18 from approximately 8-9 PM EST. During this time, please refrain...

Posted: February 17, 2026, 7:29 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

myUMBC Service Disruption Monday, Feb 16

We sincerely apologize for the service issues many of you experienced in myUMBC this morning starting around 7:30 AM. We made infrastructure improvements over the weekend that performed well...

Posted: February 16, 2026, 10:41 AM