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Infrastructure News Type: Outage Partial

Affected Infrastructure: ranch.tacc.access-ci.org

Start Date: November 1, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

End Date: November 2, 2022, 2:00 a.m.

Ranch will be undergoing tape storage expansion from 9:00 AM (CDT) until 9:00 PM on Tuesday, 1 November 2022. Ranch will be up for data ingestion but unavailable for data recovery during this time. Users will be delayed in reading their older data off of tape during this downtime. Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal. https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting

Posted: March 20, 2026 • Author: Matthew Edeker

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Infrastructure News Type: Outage Full

Affected Infrastructure: stampede2.tacc.access-ci.org

Start Date: October 14, 2022, 2:24 a.m.

End Date: October 15, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

Stampede2 is currently experiencing a file system outage. The system will be unavailable while emergency maintenance is performed. Queues will be closed during this time. We will be able to update with an estimated recovery when we're further along in the restoration. Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal. https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting 10/14/2022 Afternoon Update Stampede2 emergency maintenance is ongoing. Admins will continue working to restore service as soon as possible. We will update User News when the machine is returned to service. Thank you for your patience. 10/15/2022 Morning Update Stampede2 is back in production. Emergency maintenance has ended.

Posted: March 20, 2026 • Author: Alex Ferrier

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Infrastructure News Type: Reconfiguration

Affected Infrastructure: operations.access-ci.org

Start Date: August 30, 2022, 1:00 a.m.

End Date: December 31, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

The ACCESS Operations portal at https://operations.access-ci.org/ is now live. It includes high-level introductions to the ACCESS Operations project, including ACCESS infrastructure integration approaches, ACCESS operations policies, procedures, and best practices, infrastructure news and outages publishing, and ACCESS provided online services.

Posted: March 20, 2026 • Author: John-Paul Navarro

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Infrastructure News Type: Reconfiguration

Affected Infrastructure: tickets.access-ci.org

Start Date: August 29, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

End Date: December 31, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

The ACCESS Request Tracker ticketing system now live! The XSEDE ticketing system redirects to ACCESS, please update your bookmarks: tickets.access-ci.org

Posted: March 20, 2026 • Author: John-Paul Navarro