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Departmental Firewall Maintenance: North Interconnect, East Interconnect, South Interconnect, College of Computing, Science DMZ, and ResNetPlanned Maintenance

Description

Network Services will be upgrading the code on the campus departmental firewall appliances serving North Interconnect, East Interconnect, South Interconnect, College of Computing, Science DMZ, and residential networks on Thursday, October 1st between 8:00-11:59 PM ET (CHG0037986). This update introduces a number of security improvements. As these are High Availability pairs, no downtime is anticipated, though some services may experience a brief interruption. Up-to-date progress will be provided on Georgia Tech’s IT Service Status page, http://status.gatech.edu. After the maintenance is complete, individual users may visit http://services.gatech.edu to report any issues believed to be related to this maintenance. Campus IT staff who need to report time sensitive issues affecting multiple people and/or departments and require more immediate assistance should also contact OIT’s Infrastructure Operations Center at 404-894-4NOC (4662).

Components

Network

Services

Firewall Services

Schedule

October 1, 2026 8:00PM - 11:59PM EDT

October 1, 2026 8:00PM EDT

UPDATE

Scheduled maintenance is starting.

Academic Services

Operational

Access Control

Operational

Audio Visual (AV) Technology

Operational

Buzzcard

Operational

Campus Services

Operational

Chat and Remote Meetings

Operational

Cloud and File Storage

Operational

Data and Reporting

Operational

Data Center

Operational

Email and Calendaring

Operational

Endpoint Infrastructure

Operational

Generative AI

Operational

GTPE

Operational

Identity

Operational

Infrastructure Technologies

Operational

Network

Planned Maintenance

PACE

Operational

Printing and Copying Services

Operational

Servicenow

Operational

Student Information Systems

Operational

Other

Operational

Student Services

Operational

External Services

Scheduled Maintenance

PACE October Maintenance PeriodPlanned Maintenance

Schedule

October 5, 2026 6:00AM - October 8, 2026 11:59PM EDT

Components

PACE

Services

Phoenix Cluster, Firebird Cluster, ICE Cluster, Globus Endpoints

Description

WHEN IS IT HAPPENING? PACE's next Maintenance Period starts at 6:00AM on Monday, 10/05/2026, and is tentatively scheduled to conclude by 11:59PM on Thursday, 10/08/2026. PACE will release each cluster (Phoenix, Firebird, and ICE) as soon as maintenance work is complete. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO? As usual, jobs with resource requests that would be running during the Maintenance Period will be held until after the maintenance by the scheduler. During this Maintenance Period, access to all PACE-managed compute systems (Phoenix, Firebird, and ICE) and all storage locations except for CEDAR will be unavailable. Please plan accordingly for the projected downtime. WHAT IS HAPPENING? ITEMS REQUIRING USER ACTION/AWARENESS: [Phoenix] Reconfigure Phoenix scratch Lustre device. To reconfigure the device, all scratch data was temporarily migrated to different storage device. Data will be migrated back in this maintenance period to complete this work. While no action is necessary, users are reminded to not store difficult to reproduce or otherwise important files in scratch. [all] Upgrade GPU drivers For V100 and RTX6000 models: nvidia-driver: 580-dkms For all other models: nvidia-driver: 615-open; cuda: 13.4.2 [CEDAR] CEDAR Capacity Expansion Work to expand CEDAR’s capacity by 2.4PB is ongoing. When possible, users are asked to continue to avoid creating, modifying, or transferring large amounts of data unless necessary to help preserve service stability until the addition is complete in mid-October. Users will be notified via email once the new addition is available. ITEMS NOT REQUIRING USER ACTION: [all] Preparatory work for Research Hall expansion and cooling loop redundancy [all] Updates to all operating systems [all] Modify swap usage [ice] Upgrade storage systems versions WHY IS IT HAPPENING? Regular maintenance periods are necessary to reduce unplanned downtime and maintain a secure and stable system. WHO IS AFFECTED? All users across all PACE clusters. WHO SHOULD YOU CONTACT FOR QUESTIONS? Please contact PACE at pace-support@oit.gatech.edu with questions or concerns. You may read this message on our blog. Thank you, The PACE Team

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Departmental Firewall Maintenance: North Interconnect, East Interconnect, South Interconnect, College of Computing, Science DMZ, and ResNetPlanned Maintenance

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PACE October Maintenance PeriodPlanned Maintenance

Welcome to Georgia Tech's IT Service Status Page Don't see your issue posted here? Let us know! Administrative Services Center Email: support@oit.gatech.edu Phone: 404-385-1111 Location: Atlanta Campus, Clough Building Room 215