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. Visit the Downtime Archive for information about past outages.
| Date | Time | System | Affected Locations | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/25/2025 | 9 am - 3 pm ET | SCINet-X | Multiple | Network Maintenance |
| 07/08/2025 | 6 am - 5 pm CT | Atlas | All | Maintenance |
| 10/13/2025 | 6 am CT | Ceres | All | Maintenance |
| 10/21/2025 | 6 am - 5 pm CT | Atlas | All | Maintenance |
Further detail for each outage is posted in the announcements below if availible.
Network Maintenance · SCINet-X - Multiple - Wednesday, June 25 · 2025
To maintain the performance and security of our SCINet-X circuits across ARS, we will be performing routine network maintenance at sites with SCINet-X connections.
During a Location’s assigned maintenance window, the café machine(s) at the Location will be intermittently disconnected from SCINet for up to an hour as the maintenance work is completed.
This work will not affect access to SCINet from your desktop or laptop computer. Only SCINet access from café machines will be interrupted. This work will not affect jobs running on Atlas or Ceres.
If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance, please reach out to the SCINet team at SCINet@usda.gov.
To minimize overall impact, sites will be updated during an assigned two-hour maintenance window as indicated below:
| 9 - 11 am ET | 11 am - 1 pm ET | 1 - 3 pm ET |
|---|---|---|
| Miles City, MT | Akron, CO | Athens, GA |
| Morris, MN | Bushland, TX | Boston, MA |
| New Orleans, LA | Charleston, SC | Fargo, ND |
| Parlier, CA | Columbia, MO | Geneva, NY |
| Poplarville, MS | Griffin, GA | Tifton, GA |
| Raleigh, NC | Hilo, HI | |
| Salinas, CA | Jonesboro, AR | |
| Schriever, LA | Maricopa, AZ | |
| Sidney, MT | St. Paul, MN | |
| Stillwater, OK | Wapato, WA | |
| Temple, TX | West Lafayette, IN | |
| Wenatchee, WA | Wooster, OH | |
| Wyndmoor, PA |
Maintenance · Atlas - All - Tuesday, July 8 · 2025
The Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory’s (MSU/HPC2) Computing Office has scheduled maintenance for the atlas compute cluster.
All associated systems (login, devel, dtn, ood, compute, storage, etc…) and services (cron, globus, ood, etc…) will be disabled during this maintenance.
A notification will be posted once maintenance is complete. For any associated problems, submit a help desk ticket.
Maintenance · Ceres - All - Monday, October 13 · 2025
Ceres cluster maintenance is scheduled for October 13, 2025.
Please submit any questions you may have via email to scinet_vrsc@usda.gov.
Maintenance · Atlas - All - Tuesday, October 21 · 2025
The Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory’s (MSU/HPC2) Computing Office has scheduled maintenance for the atlas compute cluster.
All associated systems (login, devel, dtn, ood, compute, storage, etc…) and services (cron, globus, ood, etc…) will be disabled during this maintenance.
A notification will be posted once maintenance is complete. For any associated problems, submit a help desk ticket.