Planned Maintenance

Please see below for current and upcoming scheduled maintenance which may impact users of BriCS services and facilities.

If you are concerned about the impact of upcoming maintenance, or encounter unexpected issues you suspect are related to a maintenance event, please get in touch with the BriCS team.

Date and Time	Description	Services Affected	Expected Impact	Notes
2026-08-27 @ 11:00 to 12:00 BST	Updates to network configuration for the NFS mounts providing home directory ($HOME) storage on Isambard-AI Phase 2	Isambard-AI Phase 2: NFS home directory storage ($HOME)	During the reconfiguration clients may observe a brief pause in I/O. This is not expected to have a noticeable impact on running jobs or interactive sessions.	If you encounter unexpected behaviour or issues related to Isambard-AI Phase 2's storage systems after this maintenance, please raise a ticket.
2026-09-02 @ 14:00 to 16:00 BST	Essential maintenance on Isambard-AI Phase 2.	Isambard-AI Phase 2	Brief, transient interruptions to Slurm availability are expected during this time, during which commands may error or stall. If this occurs, please wait a few minutes and try again. Multiple periods of disruption are expected throughout the maintenance window.
2026-09-08 @ 11:00 to 12:00 BST	Essential network maintenance to improve the resilience of our site-wide network infrastructure.	Site-wide	Brief, intermittent network outages are expected during this time, which may cause a temporary loss of connectivity to our services. Any interruption should be short-lived; if you continue to experience issues after the maintenance window has ended, please get in touch with the BriCS team.
2026-09-10 @ 06:00 to 20:00 BST	Shutdown to enable power work to connect the National AI Data Facility. A reservation will be used to drain the system from 06:00, with shutdown starting immediately once the system has been drained.	Isambard-AI Phase 2	The system will be completely unavailable during this time. Any queued work will remain queued until the system is resumed. We will restore access as early as possible.