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Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade will occur on Tuesday, February 10, 2026 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We will be upgrading the Openshift Container Platform (OCP) on the NERC OpenShift Production Cluster to version 4.20. - We will be upgrading Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) on the NERC OpenShift Production Cluster […]

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade will occur on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are upgrading NERC’s ColdFront Plugin to the latest version. - We will be adding 8 H100 GPUs on the NERC OpenShift Production cluster. - We will be adding more NESE Storage Pools to […]

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade will occur on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are upgrading NERC’s ColdFront deployment to the latest version, which will allow users to view a Daily Invoice display in ColdFront and receive threshold budget notification emails. - We will also validate all […]

NERC's ColdFront upgrade and maintenance will occur on Tuesday Nov 11, 2025 from 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are upgrading NERC’s ColdFront deployment to the latest version of ColdFront. NOTICES - This upgrade will cause some outages to the NERC’s ColdFront service. - The estimated time to complete this maintenance is […]

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade will occur on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We will be upgrading our Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) version of NERC OpenShift Production Cluster to version 2.22. This release brings important enhancements to improve performance, security, and the overall user experience. - […]

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade - Tuesday, August 12, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We will be upgrading our Red Hat OpenShift container platform (OCP) version on NERC to 4.18. - As part of the upcoming maintenance, we’ll be rolling out several key enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI). […]

Upcoming MGHPCC (Holyoke) Annual Power Shutdown [June 2, 2025 3:00 PM ET - June 4, 2025 5:00 PM ET] (multi-day) Due to the annual MGHPCC (Holyoke data center) power maintenance as well as other maintenance activities, the New England Research Cloud (NERC) services will be unavailable from Monday, June 2nd, 3 PM until Wednesday, June […]

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade - Tuesday, May 13, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We will resolve issues related to Shelving VMs to save on resource costs when they are not in use. - We will conduct maintenance on the NERC OpenStack RadosGW (Swift/S3) object storage service. - Additionally, we will deploy […]

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade will occur on Tuesday February 11, 2025 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We will be upgrading our ColdFront deployment. Additionally, we will be performing maintenance on the NERC OpenStack RadosGW (Swift/S3) object storage service. - Other than OpenStack projects which use Swift/S3 this maintenance should not […]

Upcoming NERC OpenStack Platform, ColdFront service and OpenShift Account Manager maintenance will occur on Tuesday September 3, 2024 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are planning to migrate a set of GPU hypervisors (V100) from the NERC OpenStack cluster to the NERC OpenShift cluster. We will also be upgrading both the […]

Upcoming NERC OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and ColdFront service maintenance and upgrade will occur on Monday August 5, 2024 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We plan to perform maintenance and a version upgrade on the NERC OpenShift deployment. This maintenance will involve a rolling reboot of all hosts in the cluster. […]

Upcoming NERC's RegApp & ColdFront upgrade and maintenance will occur on Tuesday June 18, 2024 from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are upgrading and updating NERC's RegApp deployment. - We are upgrading and updating NERC's ColdFront deployment. NOTICES - This upgrade will cause some outages to the NERC’s RegApp & ColdFront […]

Upcoming NERC's ColdFront upgrade and maintenance will occur on Tuesday May 14, 2024 from 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are upgrading and updating NERC's ColdFront deployment. - This will allow users to request minimal Swift Object Storage during the decommission process. NOTICES - This upgrade will cause some outages to the […]

Upcoming MGHPCC (Holyoke) Annual Power Shutdown [May 22, 2024 8:00 AM ET - May 28, 2024 8:00 PM ET] (multi-day) Due to the annual MGHPCC (Holyoke data center) and other maintenance activities, New England Research Cloud (NERC) services will be unavailable from Wednesday, May 22nd, 8 AM until Tuesday, May 28th, 8 PM. While the […]

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade will occur on Tuesday April 16, 2024 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are writing to inform you that we are planning to perform maintenance on the NERC OpenStack deployment. This will take the majority of the maintenance period. - We will also be upgrading […]