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
2025-10-18	Network physical hardware replacement	Isambard-AI Phase 1, Phase 2 and Isambard 3	Total network outage affecting access to Isambard-AI Phase 1, Phase 2 and Isambard 3. Access to the systems will not be possible.	This is early notification of a third-party change. Exact timing is to be determined.
2025-12-02 @ 10:00 to 16:00 local	Physical works affecting Isambard-AI Phase 2	Isambard-AI Phase 2 Compute Service	Isambard-AI Phase 2 compute nodes need to be idle to allow physical works to be performed. Compute nodes will be drained using a reservation starting at 10:00 local. User access to the login nodes will not be affected and work can be submitted as usual and will queue until service is resumed. We expect service to be resumed by 16:00 local or earlier.