Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Downtime

SCINet Scheduled Outages

The table below lists information about planned SCINet outages. See SCINet Forum Announcements page (must have a SCINet account to access) for communications about emergency outages.

Outage Date System Affected Locations Reason
12/2/2019-12/6/2019 Ceres All (Ceres offline) upgrades/expansion
2/17/2020 Ceres All (Ceres offline) maintenance
3/2/2020 SCINet Clay Center router replacement
3/12/2020 SCINet Ft Collins router replacement
3/19/2020 SCINet Ft Collins router migration
4/17/2020-4/19/2020 SCINet & AWS Beltsville, Fargo, University Park, All AWS Users planned power outage
6/16/2020-6/17/2020 Ceres All (Ceres offline) maintenance
8/25/2020 SCINet Stoneville UPS maintenance
10/12/2020 Ceres All (Ceres offline) maintenance
02/15/2021 Ceres All (Ceres offline) maintenance
02/16/2021 Ceres All (Ceres offline) maintenance
02/23/2021 Atlas All (connections to Atlas) maintenance
05/24/2021-05/27/2021 Ceres All (connections to Ceres) maintenance

Further detail for each outage will be posted in advance of the outage date in the announcements below if availible.

24 May 2021 · ARS SCINet Site Service maintenance 2021/05/24 - 2021/05/27

The listed assets will be unavailable while contractors perform testing on the elecrtical service switchgear, generators, and turbine. Outages throughout the window are expected.

16 Feb 2021 · Atlas network scheduled maintenance 2021/02/23

Network connectivity to Atlas cluster system will be impacted Tuesday, February 23, 6:00 – 8:00 Central Time.

21 Aug 2020 · Site Service Impact at Stoneville 25 August 2020

SCINet connectivity at the Stoneville location will be impacted Tuesday, August 25, 7:00 – 16:00 Central Time.

15 Apr 2020 · April 17-19 Planned Power Outage to Affect Beltsville, Fargo, University Park, All AWS Users

On Friday, 17 April 2020 starting at 9:00pm ET SCINet equipment at the National Agricultural Library will be powered down in advance of...

17 Mar 2020 · Ft Collins Scheduled Outage March 19

Connectivity from Ft Collins to SCINet assets will be disrupted Thursday, March 19, 9:30 – 11:30am Mountain Time.

05 Mar 2020 · Ft Collins Scheduled Outage March 12

Connectivity from Ft Collins to SCINet assets will be disrupted Thursday, March 12, 10am – noon Mountain Time.

27 Feb 2020 · Clay Center Scheduled Outage March 2

Connectivity from Clay Center to SCINet assets will be disrupted Monday, March 2, 10:30am – 1:00pm EST.

03 Feb 2020 · Reminder - Ceres Downtime February 17

Ceres downtime is scheduled for Presidents' day, Monday, February 17th

25 Nov 2019 · Reminder - Ceres Downtime in One Week, Dec 2-6

Ceres downtime is scheduled for Monday, December 2 – Friday, December 6