MGHPCC will be offline June 2–6 for scheduled maintenance
No jobs will run, and sign-in services will be unavailable
The Longwood High-Performance Compute Cluster and LASER at Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) will be offline from Monday, June 2, 2025, at 9:00 AM through Friday, June 6, 2025, at 5:00 PM EDT (UTC-4) for annual facility maintenance.
All systems in the MGHPCC facility must be powered down during this time. No jobs will run, and sign-in services will be unavailable. Any jobs scheduled to run during the outage will be postponed; they will resume after the maintenance is complete. If you need a job completed before the outage, schedule it accordingly.
This work does not affect the O2 cluster or other HMS services.
For more information, you can view the status page for the Longwood cluster.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact the Research Computing team at HMS at rchelp@hms.harvard.edu.
MGHPCC 2025 shutdown timeline
| Date and time | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Before June 2, 9:00 AM EDT | ✅ Full service | All MGHPCC systems fully operational. |
| June 2, just after 9:00 AM | ⚠️ Service degraded | Shutdown begins. |
| June 2–6 | ❌ Service outage | Power out at MCHPCC. |
| June 6, just before 5:00 PM | ⚠️ Service degraded | Services returning but limited. |
| June 6, 5:00 PM EDT | ✅ Full service | Expected return to full service. |