Sep 15, 2026

UPDATE - 9/23/26 - Some of the home filesystem maintenance was postponed and is scheduled to be completed the week of 9/28/26. This blog will be updated when the maintenance is complete.

On Friday, September 18th, a minor configuration change will be applied to the home file system. No outage or performance impacts are anticipated. This blog will be updated once the configuration change is complete.

Sep 11, 2026

RESOLVED: 9/22: The scavenger queue is back online. We identified the job requests that trigger the preemption issue and implemented scheduler logic to account for them.

UPDATE: 9/18: We are working with our software vendor to resolve this issue.

We have temporarily paused running jobs through the scavenger queue while we investigate a potential issue with job preemption. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Sep 30, 2026

Following the power outage, ICER is aware of some users seeing IO errors when accessing some files on the research filesystem. We are actively working with our storage vendor to resolve these errors, and will provide an update as soon as we are able.

Sep 29, 2026

Scratch Storage: Intermittent Write Errors

We are investigating intermittent write errors affecting scratch storage. Users may encounter errors when jobs or other processes attempt to write files to scratch.

Our team is addressing storage utilization issues we believe to be the cause at this time.