Downtime Evening of Thurs Dec 18

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:01:40 -0500
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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 significant memory management issues that have been reported by our vendor.

We understand that this downtime will be disruptive, but the Research Computing Team will endeavor to complete this patch quickly and alert the user base to resumed operations.

As always, remember to submit any issues you have here: https://rtforms.umbc.edu/rt_authenticated/doit/DoIT-support.php?auto=Research%20Computing

and check out our documentation here: https://umbc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/faq/pages/1082589207/UMBC+HPCF+-+chip

Roy Prouty

Asst Director for Research Computing