Fortress
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Upcoming Maintenance Notice: MATH Datacenter Renovation Progress (Saturday, August 15, 2026)
As of 6:30PM on August 16th 2026, all clusters have been brought back online. As of 3:30PM on August 16th 2026, all clusters with the exception of Gilbreth have been brought back online. As the renovation and capacity improvement project in the MATH...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, August 5, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfe...
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Duke Power Outage: Fortress, Hammer, and CMS Storage Going Offline
Due to a Duke Power outage, Fortress, Hammer, and CMS storage need to be brought offline. These systems are currently on battery backup. There is no ETA for restoration at this time. We will update as soon as we have more information or if the power...
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Data Depot service disruption impacting schedulers
We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting Depot. Engineers are actively investigating. Schedulers are paused to prevent further impact while we work to stabilize the service. We will provide another update as soon as more informati...
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Changes to Scratch Storage Policies
We are updating how we describe and manage scratch storage to keep our systems fast, reliable, and fair for everyone. Following good data practices makes scratch more performant and more useful for all users. By keeping master copies of important dat...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, July 1, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfers...
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Data Depot related service disruption
We’re investigating an issue affecting access to Data Depot services following a network change made at 11:00 AM ET. Users may see a brief outage or stalled connections while we work to restore normal service. Our teams are actively investigating, an...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, June 3, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfers...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 6, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfers...
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All Clusters & Services Restored
At approximately 9:40pm EDT Monday, April 27th, 2026, a campus-wide power outage due to weather impacted all research computing clusters and storage systems. Power has been restored, and engineers are currently bringing systems back online in an orde...
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RCAC Maintenance Complete – All Systems Available
The ongoing RCAC maintenance originally scheduled to conclude at 5:00 PM today (Thursday, April 23) has been extended. The new expected completion time is 9:00 PM tonight, Thursday, April 23. All RCAC systems and Research Network services will remain...
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Data Depot is currently unavailable
We are currently experiencing an unplanned outage affecting Data Depot. Engineers are actively working to restore service, but there is no ETA to share yet. We will provide updates as soon as more information is available.
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 1, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfer...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable March 4, 2026 8:00am - March 5, 2026 9:00am EST for an software upgrade. Fortress will be updated to HPSS 10.3. During this time, Fortress will receivea major upgrade to its software. This will include som...
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We are currently investigating network performance issues affecting network traffic. Impact To You: At this time, you may notice latency or brief disruptions when accessing certain on-campus or external resources, especially during peak usage periods...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, February 4, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any trans...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, January 7, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transf...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 12:00am EST on 12/23/25 and will resume normal business hours on January 5th, 2026 During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, December 3, 2025 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any trans...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Thursday, November 13, 2025 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for a special maintenance to upgrade the Spectralogic Tape Library. During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any trans...