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2026 MGHPCC power downtime June 15-18, 2026
Scheduled for June 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM – June 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM8 hours
  • Planned
    June 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
    Planned
    June 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM

    The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has been scheduled by the facility. This year's power downtime will take place on Tuesday June  15th - 18th, 2025.  There will be no June monthly maintenance as a result.

    Since the facility will be powered down for two days this year, we will not be performing the usual maintenance tasks. 
    That said, networking and other key infrastructure will be doing maintenance.

    IMPORTANT NOTE: FASRC storage at both Holyoke and Boston will be affected and should not be expected to be available throughout the downtime. Please plan ahead accordingly.

    • Monday June 15th -  Power-down begins at 9AM

    • Tuesday June 16th - Power out at MGHPCC

    • Wednesday June 17th - Power out at MGHPCC

    • Thursday June 18th - Expected return to full service by 5PM

    • Friday June 19th - Please note that June 19th is a university holiday

     

    Monday June 15th -  Power-down begins at 9AM
Tuesday June 16th - Power out at MGHPCC
Wednesday June 17th - Power out at MGHPCC
Thursday June 18th - Expected return to full service by 5PM

    For more detailed information and follow-up, please see:
    https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/mghpcc-yearly-shutdown or this Status Page

Operational

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon - Operational

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke) - Operational

Boston Compute Nodes - Operational

GPU nodes (Holyoke) - Operational

seas_compute - Operational

Operational

SLURM Scheduler - FASSE - Operational

FASSE Compute Cluster (Holyoke) - Operational

Operational

Kempner Cluster CPU - Operational

Kempner Cluster GPU - Operational

Operational

FASSE login nodes - Operational

Operational

Cannon Open OnDemand/VDI - Operational

FASSE Open OnDemand/VDI - Operational

Operational

Netscratch (Global Scratch) - Operational

Home Directory Storage - Boston - Operational

Tape - (Tier 3) - Operational

Holylabs - Operational

Isilon Storage Holyoke (Tier 1) - Operational

Holystore01 (Tier 0) - Operational

HolyLFS04 (Tier 0) - Operational

HolyLFS05 (Tier 0) - Operational

HolyLFS06 (Tier 0) - Operational

Holyoke Tier 2 NFS (new) - Operational

Holyoke Specialty Storage - Operational

holECS - Operational

Isilon Storage Boston (Tier 1) - Operational

BosLFS02 (Tier 0) - Operational

Boston Tier 2 NFS (new) - Operational

CEPH Storage Boston (Tier 2) - Operational

Boston Specialty Storage - Operational

bosECS - Operational

Samba Cluster - Operational

Globus Data Transfer - Operational

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