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Chip - Outage Resolved

Good afternoon, The issues with chip have been resolved. All users should be able to login and access their research volumes as normal. Thank you for your understanding while we worked to...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 4:45 PM

Chip - Investigating ongoing issues

Good afternoon, Unfortunately, it appears that the issues with chip earlier in the day have not been fully resolved.  Currently, there are issues with Ceph mounted research volumes not being...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 3:56 PM

Outage resolved

Good afternoon, Happy to announce the outage has been resolved. You may log in as normal. As a reminder, the login node is NOT a high performance machine, and should not be used to run...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 1:21 PM

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