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Current

  • Starting 2023-04-13: Due to issues with our Windows RDS CAL license server configuration we had to deactivate this feature. This means new Windows workspaces will only allow two logged in users at the same time. Users with current running and paused Windows workspaces with this issue will be contacted.

Future

  • 2023-05-31 8:00 am / 5:00 pm: Update network components in our SURF HPC Cloud system. The portal will be unavailable, workspace cannot be created or paused/resumed in the Cloud provider 'HPC Cloud'. Running workspaces will remain available.
  • 2023-06-13 8:00 am / 6:00 pm: Apply security updates to a batch of GPU & CPU Fat nodes. Impact: less availability of mentioned resources and no running workspaces on the hardware under maintenance. 
  • 2023-06-20 8:00 am / 6:00 pm: Apply Security updates to a batch of GPU & CPU Fat nodes. Impact: less availability of mentioned resources and no running workspaces on the hardware under maintenance.

Past

2023
  • 2023-04-12 9:00 am / 5:00 pm: Maintenance of the accounting service that manages the wallets. New wallets or changes will be processed after this maintenance window. Existing workspaces and wallets will not be affected.
  • 2023-04-04 7:00 am / 9:00 am: Network change 418 with expected network downtime of 2 minutes during this maintenance window. This might affect network traffic to and from VM's on SURF HPC Cloud.
  • 2023-03-28 22:00 CET / 01:00 CET: Internal database outage. Users could not perform any operations on either workspaces or catalog items. Any changes made to either workspaces or catalog items between 19:00 CET and 22:00 CET are lost and cannot be recovered.
  • 2023-03-21 / 2023-03-22: For a short period of time SURF ResearchCloud reported wrong usage amounts. This resulted in falsely depleted wallets and some users were unable to start/resume workspaces. This has been corrected and resolved.
  • 2023-03-20 12:15 / 14:55: Storage issue caused workspace creation to be unavailable
  • 2023-03-14 12:40 am / 12:50 am: Internal database upgrade, workspace cannot be created or paused/resumed.
  • 2023-03-02 7:00 am / 9:00 am: Network change 418 with expected network downtime of 2 minutes during this maintenance window. This might affect network traffic to and from VM's on SURF HPC Cloud. (rescheduled to: 2023-04-04)
  • 2023-02-16 5:00 am / 7:00 am: SRAM service dependency will be updated; Impact: SRC portal is not accessible; no impact for running workspaces
  • 2023-02-07 11:25 am / 11:50 am: Due to problems with our authentication service, it is currently not possible to log in to the Research Cloud portal. Running workspaces are unaffected.
  • 2023-02-06 2:00 pm / 8:26 pm: Ubuntu workspaces would fail sporadically due to failing to reach the package repository endpoint. (status.canonical.com)
  • 2023-01-25 09:00 am / 11:30 am: Update network components in our SURF HPC Cloud system. The portal will be unavailable, workspace cannot be created or paused/resumed in the Cloud provider 'HPC Cloud'.


  • 2022-12-20 08:00 / 17:00: Maintenance of all GPU & CPU Fat nodes; Impact: no running workspaces on the hardware under maintenance 
  • 2022-09-28 9:00 am / 19:00 pm: Updating the infrastructure supporting the SRC Portal.
  • 2022-09-15 5:00 am / 7:00 am: SRAM service dependency will be updated; Impact: SRC portal is not accessible; no impact for running workspaces
  • 2022-07-24 8:13 pm - 8:15 pm: Intermittent authentication service issues.  20:13-20:1520:13-20:15 20:13-20:15

  • 2022-06-03 / 2022-06-22: New workspaces can not be attached to existing reserved IPs and not be added to existing private networks.

  • 2022-06-02 04:00 pm / 2022-06-02 18:00: No new workspaces can be created.

  • 2022-05-25 1:00 pm / 6:30 pm:  new workspaces likely to fail due to network capacity. Running workspaces could be logged in to and worked with as usual.
  • 2022-05-10  11:30 am / 4:45 pm : portal.live.surfresearchcloud.nl blocked  
  • 2022-05-09 08:00 am / 8:00 pm
    • Plan: update network components in our SURF HPC Cloud system
    • Impact: workspaces cannot be created or paused/resumed in the Cloud provider 'HPC Cloud'
  • 2022-01-28 12:14 am: Communication to all service users about the PwnKit vulnerability and how to patch vulnerable workspaces
  • 2021-10-13 12:30 pm / 2021-10-15 10:56 am: Maintenance was extended due to unforeseen stability issues while deploying service components to new hardware
    • Impact
      • creation of new workspaces in the Cloud provider 'HPC Cloud' is not available
  • 2021-10-13 7:00 am / 12:30 pm: Hardware replacement
    • Impact
      • creation of new workspaces in the Cloud provider 'HPC Cloud' is not available
    • No impact
      • running workspaces will operate as usual
      • SRC Portal is available
  • 2021-09-29: SRC access might be less available
    • From 5:00 to 07:00: SRAM service dependency will be updated; Impact: SRC portal is not accessible; no impact for running workspaces
  • 2021-06-08: SRC access might be less available
    • From 5:00 to 07:00: SRAM service dependency will be updated; Impact: access to SRC is less available; no impact for running workspaces
  • 2021-05-26: Portal and connection to VMs unstable
    • From ca. 10:00 to 12:00: Limited portal and VM usage due to an internal failure in Research Cloud.
  • 2021-04-28: Creation of new workspaces fails
    • From ca. 9:45 to 10:45: Due to a Research Cloud internal failure, users could not start new workspaces.
  • 2021-03-15: Gitlab.com down
    • Between 13:00h and 15:00h, gitlab.com was unavailable, which rendered SRC unable to create workspaces.