Downtime

SCINet Future 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
10/10/2022-10/11/2022	Ceres	All (Ceres offline)	maintenance
06/20-21/2022	Ceres	All (Ceres offline)	maintenance
05/17/2022	Atlas	All (connections to Atlas)	Maintenance
02/21/2022	Ceres	All (Ceres offline)	maintenance
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.

16 Sep 2022 · Ceres downtime is scheduled for Monday, October 10 – Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Ceres cluster maintenance is scheduled for Oct 10, 2022 to update system software.

28 Apr 2022 · Atlas Downtime May 17, 2022 (all day)

Atlas downtime is scheduled to start at 7AM CST on Tuesday, May 17th.

12 Jan 2022 · Maintenance at Stoneville January 20, 2022

One hour maintenance at Stoneville is scheduled to start at 10:30AM CST on Thursday, January 20.

29 Nov 2021 · Atlas Downtime December 8, 2021 (all day)

Atlas downtime is scheduled to start at 8AM CST on Wednesday, December 8.

17 Nov 2021 · SCINet outages affecting connection to Ceres are expected on November 18, 2021 from 8:30 to 10:30AM CT.

SCINet network maintenance has been scheduled for Ames, IA on November 18 2021 from 8:30 to 10:30AM CT.

10 Nov 2021 · SCINet outages affecting connection to Ceres and Albany are expected on November 15-16, 2021.

SCINet network maintenance has been scheduled for Ames, IA and Albany, CA on November 15-16, 2021.

29 Oct 2021 · SCINet outages affecting connection to Ceres are expected on November 04-05, 2021 from midnight to 6AM CT.

Lumen engineers will perform preventative fiber relocation work on November 04-05 2021 from midnight to 6AM CT.

27 Oct 2021 · SCINet outages affecting connection to Ceres and Juno are expected on Thursday, October 28, 2021

A maintenance window has been scheduled for 28 October 2021 from 10:30am to 12:30pm CT.

26 Oct 2021 · SCINet outages affecting connection to Ceres and Juno are expected on Tuesday, October 26, 2021

A maintenance window has been scheduled for 26 October 2021 from 4:30pm to 8:30pm CT.

19 Oct 2021 · SCINet outages affecting connection to Ceres are expected on Tuesday, October 19, 2021

The router at Ames will be rebooted on or about 4:30 CT Tuesday, October 19, 2021.

07 Oct 2021 · Ceres downtime is scheduled for Thursday, November 11, 2021

Ceres maintenance is scheduled for Thursday, November 11, 2021 to upgrade internal cluster network.

23 Aug 2021 · Ceres downtime is scheduled for Monday, August 23 – Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The maintenance window has been extended to 5PM CT Friday, September 3.

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