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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/08/2025 | 6 am - 5 pm CT | Atlas | All | Maintenance |
| 06/19/2025 | 6 am CT | Ceres | All | Maintenance |
| 07/08/2025 | 6 am - 5 pm CT | Atlas | All | Maintenance |
| 10/13/2025 | 6 am CT | Ceres | All | Maintenance |
| 10/14/2025 | 6 am - 5 pm CT | Atlas | All | Maintenance |
Further detail for each outage is posted in the announcements below if availible.
Maintenance · Atlas - All - Tuesday, April 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 - Thursday, June 19 · 2025
Ceres cluster maintenance is scheduled for June 19, 2025.
The Atlas cluster will be available during the Ceres maintenance. Make sure to copy data from Ceres to Atlas prior to the maintenance, if needed.
Please submit any questions you may have via email to scinet_vrsc@usda.gov.
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 14 · 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.