Please be advised that the Regulated (ReD) Environment will be unavailable Monday, Nov. 3rd, 2025 from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET, due to scheduled maintenance activities. During this time, we will:
perform important OS updates to shared infrastructure servers,
rebuild and redeploy scientific software containers,
update the reference operating system for the Linux cluster compute nodes,
publish updated software stacks for Research & Engineering Studio (RES) Linux and Windows VDI sessions, and
apply network changes to address excessive lag in authentication to Linux systems.
Terminate any RES VDIs older than one month
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WARNING! PLEASE COPY ANY PROPRIETARY DATA OFF THESE OLD RES VDIS BEFORE THE MAINTENANCE WINDOW!
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Note that we may adjust this list as the feasibility of each item is ironed out within the next several days.
As a reminder, regularly scheduled maintenance for the Regulated (RED) environment occurs on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month. Our next scheduled maintenance is Monday, Nov. 17th.
Thank you for the opportunity to serve your regulated research computing needs.
Respectfully,
The Regulated Data Team
