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
2025-06-26 10:00-11:00 UTC+1	Rebooting storage management servers	Isambard 3	To resolve some issues on Isambard 3's Lustre storage, we will be rebooting the Lustre management nodes. This should have no noticeable impact to the filesystem, or the cluster.
2025-07-02 09:00-17:00 UTC+1	At risk period for core network upgrade work to improve resilience and prepare for connection of Isambard-AI Phase 2	Isambard-AI Phase 1 and Isambard 3 compute services	External network connectivity for Isambard-AI Phase 1 and Isambard 3 will be at risk of disruption during this period. Brief interruptions to connectivity may occur.	If you experience connectivity issues during an SSH session, please disconnect and reconnect. Internal networking for the clusters will not be affected.