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<p>From 23 November 2026 until 4 December 2026 (expected), the computing center building (449.3) at KIT Campus North will be completely disconnected from the power grid due to mandatory inspections and maintenance work on the electrical infrastructure. This will affect all HPC systems operated at KIT. The following clusters will be unavailable during this period:</p> |
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Due to a critical security vulnerability, <strong>all login nodes of the HPC systems at KIT had to be taken offline immediately</strong>. |
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<h3>What does this mean for you?</h3> |
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<li>bwUniCluster 3.0</li> |
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<li><strong>Login access is currently unavailable</strong> – please refrain from further login attempts.</li> |
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<li>HoreKa 2</li> |
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<li>Jobs already <strong>running in the queue are not affected</strong> and will continue as normal.</li> |
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<li>HoreKa</li> |
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<li><strong>New jobs cannot be submitted</strong> at this time.</li> |
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<li>HAICORE@KIT</li> |
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<li>Deletion of <strong>workspaces</strong> has been disabled.</li> |
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<li>Future Technologies Partition</li> |
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<h3>Next Steps</h3> |
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<p>We are working diligently to resolve the issue and will keep you informed as soon as the systems are available again. The optimistic ETA for return to service is the beginning of calendar week 29.</p> |
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<p>During this period, access to your data will not be possible. Compute jobs will not run while the systems are offline. Workspace expiration and automatic deletion will be suspended for the duration of the downtime; therefore, no ws_extend request is required.</p> |
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<p>We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.</p> |
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<p>To avoid additional service interruptions in the near future, we will combine this building-related outage with our own maintenance activities, including operating system updates, software upgrades, file system maintenance, completion of the final phase of the power busbar upgrade, and preparations of the rack infrastructure for the planned GPU-based expansion of the HPC systems in 2027. |
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<p>Once the maintenance work has been completed, the HPC systems will be brought back into operation one cluster at a time. The restart of all systems is planned to be completed by 4 December 2026. |
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Latest revision as of 19:25, 29 October 2026
The bwUniCluster 3.0+KIT-GFA-HPC 3 is the joint high-performance computer system of Baden-Württemberg's Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences for general purpose and teaching and located at the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The bwUniCluster 3.0 complements the four bwForClusters and their dedicated scientific areas.
| Scheduled Downtime: Shutdown of all HPC Clusters: 23.11.2026 – 04.12.2026 |
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From 23 November 2026 until 4 December 2026 (expected), the computing center building (449.3) at KIT Campus North will be completely disconnected from the power grid due to mandatory inspections and maintenance work on the electrical infrastructure. This will affect all HPC systems operated at KIT. The following clusters will be unavailable during this period:
During this period, access to your data will not be possible. Compute jobs will not run while the systems are offline. Workspace expiration and automatic deletion will be suspended for the duration of the downtime; therefore, no ws_extend request is required. To avoid additional service interruptions in the near future, we will combine this building-related outage with our own maintenance activities, including operating system updates, software upgrades, file system maintenance, completion of the final phase of the power busbar upgrade, and preparations of the rack infrastructure for the planned GPU-based expansion of the HPC systems in 2027. Once the maintenance work has been completed, the HPC systems will be brought back into operation one cluster at a time. The restart of all systems is planned to be completed by 4 December 2026. |
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