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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

Unscheduled chip-cpu Downtime: Cooling Issue Resolved

To all chip-cpu users, The cooling issue reported around 2320ET Thursday Jan 15 has been resolved. Maintenance technicians were able to assess and repair the chillers that service the research...

Posted: January 16, 2026, 12:09 AM

Unscheduled chip-cpu Downtime: Cooling Issue

To all chip-cpu users, A cooling issue in a research park computer room necessitated the unscheduled and immediate shutdown of chip-cpu hardware which was housed in that computer room. While...

Posted: January 15, 2026, 11:15 PM

December HPCF Newsletter

Hi everyone, First I want to congratulate everyone for making it to the end of the semester, and a special congratulations to our new graduates! Second, happy holidays! I hope whatever you do...

Posted: December 23, 2025, 2:26 PM

Scheduled Downtime Complete

To all chip users, The DoIT Research Computing Team has completed the downtime scheduled for today. Over the course of the downtime, the team was able to put into place headnode software...

Posted: December 18, 2025, 11:08 PM

Downtime Evening of Thurs Dec 18

To all chip users, The chip cluster will be brought offline for a few hours Thursday Dec 18 starting at 1800ET. This brief downtime is to patch our cluster management head-nodes to avoid...

Posted: December 15, 2025, 2:01 PM

SIG-UE Meeting, Tuesday November 18th

The User Experience Committee will be meeting next week, Tuesday November 18th 1330-1430 in room 401 of the Physics Building, to have its second meeting of the Fall semester. We encourage all...

Posted: November 11, 2025, 1:18 PM