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 |
| 1/20/2022 |
SCINet |
Stoneville |
maintenance |
| 12/08/2021 |
Atlas |
All (connections to Atlas) |
Full cluster maintenance |
| 11/18/2021 |
SCINet |
All (connections to Ceres) |
network maintenance in Ames |
| 11/16/2021 |
SCINet |
All (connections to Ceres) |
network maintenance in Ames |
| 11/15/2021 |
SCINet |
Albany |
network maintenance in Albany |
| 11/11/2021 |
Ceres |
All (Ceres offline) |
maintenance |
| 11/04/2021-11/05/2021 |
Ceres |
All (connections to Ceres) |
fiber relocation |
| 10/28/2021 |
Ceres, Juno |
All (connections to Ceres, Juno) |
network update |
| 10/26/2021 |
Ceres, Juno |
All (connections to Ceres, Juno) |
network update |
| 10/19/2021 |
Ceres |
All (connections to Ceres) |
router update |
| 08/23/2021-09/01/2021 |
Ceres |
All (connections to Ceres) |
maintenance |
| 05/24/2021-05/27/2021 |
Ceres |
All (connections to Ceres) |
maintenance |
| 02/23/2021 |
Atlas |
All (connections to Atlas) |
maintenance |
| 02/16/2021 |
Ceres |
All (Ceres offline) |
maintenance |
| 02/15/2021 |
Ceres |
All (Ceres offline) |
maintenance |
| 10/12/2020 |
Ceres |
All (Ceres offline) |
maintenance |
| 8/25/2020 |
SCINet |
Stoneville |
UPS maintenance |
| 6/16/2020-6/17/2020 |
Ceres |
All (Ceres offline) |
maintenance |
| 4/17/2020-4/19/2020 |
SCINet & AWS |
Beltsville, Fargo, University Park, All AWS Users |
planned power outage |
| 3/19/2020 |
SCINet |
Ft Collins |
router migration |
| 3/12/2020 |
SCINet |
Ft Collins |
router replacement |
| 3/2/2020 |
SCINet |
Clay Center |
router replacement |
| 2/17/2020 |
Ceres |
All (Ceres offline) |
maintenance |
| 12/2/2019-12/6/2019 |
Ceres |
All (Ceres offline) |
upgrades/expansion |
Further detail for each outage will be posted in advance of the outage date in the announcements below if availible.
One hour maintenance at Stoneville is scheduled to start at 10:30AM CST on Thursday, January 20.
Atlas downtime is scheduled to start at 8AM CST on Wednesday, December 8.
SCINet network maintenance has been scheduled for Ames, IA on November 18 2021 from 8:30 to 10:30AM CT.
SCINet network maintenance has been scheduled for Ames, IA and Albany, CA on November 15-16, 2021.
Lumen engineers will perform preventative fiber relocation work on November 04-05 2021 from midnight to 6AM CT.
A maintenance window has been scheduled for 28 October 2021 from 10:30am to 12:30pm CT.
A maintenance window has been scheduled for 26 October 2021 from 4:30pm to 8:30pm CT.
The router at Ames will be rebooted on or about 4:30 CT Tuesday, October 19, 2021.
Ceres maintenance is scheduled for Thursday, November 11, 2021 to upgrade internal cluster network.
The maintenance window has been extended to 5PM CT Friday, September 3.
The listed assets will be unavailable while contractors perform testing on the elecrtical service switchgear, generators, and turbine. Outages throughout the window are expected.
Network connectivity to Atlas cluster system will be impacted Tuesday, February 23, 6:00 – 8:00 Central Time.
SCINet connectivity at the Stoneville location will be impacted Tuesday, August 25, 7:00 – 16:00 Central Time.
On Friday, 17 April 2020 starting at 9:00pm ET SCINet equipment at the National Agricultural Library will be powered down in advance of...
Connectivity from Ft Collins to SCINet assets will be disrupted Thursday, March 19, 9:30 – 11:30am Mountain Time.
Connectivity from Ft Collins to SCINet assets will be disrupted Thursday, March 12, 10am – noon Mountain Time.
Connectivity from Clay Center to SCINet assets will be disrupted Monday, March 2, 10:30am – 1:00pm EST.
Ceres downtime is scheduled for Presidents' day, Monday, February 17th
Ceres downtime is scheduled for Monday, December 2 – Friday, December 6
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