MGHPCC SHARED SERVICES (MGHPCC-SS) ACCOUNT PORTAL - Operational
MGHPCC SHARED SERVICES (MGHPCC-SS) ACCOUNT PORTAL
NERC COLDFRONT - Operational
NERC COLDFRONT
NERC ACADEMIC (EDU) OPENSHIFT CLUSTER - Operational
NERC ACADEMIC (EDU) OPENSHIFT CLUSTER
NETWORKING - Operational
NETWORKING
STORAGE - Operational
NERC WEBSITE - Operational
NERC WEBSITE
NERC DOCUMENTATION WEBSITE - Operational
NERC TICKETING SYSTEM - Operational
NERC TICKETING SYSTEM
Notice history
View current statusJul 2024
Jun 2024
- Completed · June 18, 2024 at 2:33 PMUTC
All upgrade and maintenance is complete now!
- In progress · June 18, 2024 at 1:00 PMUTCMaintenance is now in progress
- Planned · June 18, 2024 at 1:00 PMUTC
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 service.
- The estimated time to complete this update is 2 hours. It can take more or less time, so we urge you to keep an eye on https://nerc.instatus.com/ to get the progress during this time.
- Please do subscribe to https://nerc.instatus.com/subscribe/email in order to get the progress updates during this time.
Our priority is to help make science happen, so If you or your research team have any questions or need to escalate an issue, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via email (help@nerc.mghpcc.org) or, by submitting a new ticket at the NERC's Support Ticketing System.
Thank you,New England Research Cloud (NERC)
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- Resolved · UTCThis incident has been resolved.
- Identified · UTC
We have identified the root cause of the wireless network issues across campus and have partnered with a vendor to apply a fix. Further testing is required to ensure efficacy before applying it to our environment. We appreciate the community's patience as we work through this process.
- Investigating · UTC
We are investigating reported intermittent wireless outages across campus. If you are experiencing an interruption in wireless service, please open a ticket by calling the HUIT Service Desk at 617-495-7777 or emailing ithelp@harvard.edu with the MAC address of your device.
May 2024
- Completed · May 29, 2024 at 12:00 AMUTCMaintenance has completed successfully
- In progress · May 22, 2024 at 12:00 PMUTCMaintenance is now in progress
- Planned · May 22, 2024 at 12:00 PMUTC
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 timing is not ideal due to the long Memorial Day weekend, it is necessary due to upgrades on related core services such as networking and the Northeast Storage Exchange (NESE).
NERC services that will be impacted include:
NERC's RedHat OpenStack
NERC's RedHat OpenShift, which includes the Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) platform.
NERC supporting services ColdFront and RegApp
Due to the long holiday weekend, our goal is to resume full services by the end of Tuesday, May 28th, at 8 PM or earlier. Please refer to the timeline below for details:

NOTICES
- This outage affects all services and resources in the MGHPCC/Holyoke data center which include NERC’s core services and underlying compute, storage and networking.- The estimated time for power-up and return to full service is 8 PM on Tuesday, May 28th. We encourage you to monitor the progress at https://nerc.instatus.com/ during this time.
- Please subscribe to the NERC’s status for any future updates as they happen: https://nerc.instatus.com/subscribe/email
Our priority is to help make science happen, so If you or your research team have any questions or need to escalate an issue, please contact us via email (help@nerc.mghpcc.org) or, by submitting a new ticket at the NERC's Support Ticketing System.
Thank you,New England Research Cloud (NERC)
- Completed · May 14, 2024 at 3:00 PMUTCMaintenance has completed successfully
- Update · May 14, 2024 at 2:03 PMUTC
We are extending this maintenance for 1 more hour.
- In progress · May 14, 2024 at 12:00 PMUTCMaintenance is now in progress
- Planned · May 14, 2024 at 12:00 PMUTC
Upcoming NERC's ColdFront upgrade and maintenance will occur on Tuesday May 14, 2024 from 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM.
ENERAL 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 NERC’s ColdFront service.
- The estimated time to complete this update is 2 hours. It can take more or less time, so we urge you to keep an eye on https://nerc.instatus.com/ to get the progress during this time.
- Please do subscribe to https://nerc.instatus.com/subscribe/email in order to get the progress updates during this time.
Our priority is to help make science happen, so If you or your research team have any questions or need to escalate an issue, please contact us via email (help@nerc.mghpcc.org) or, by submitting a new ticket at the NERC’s Support Ticketing System.
Thanks,New England Research Cloud (NERC)

