Maintenance

Anatra HPC will undergo planned maintenance on Wednesday 25 November 2026 to upgrade its operating system and apply important maintenance and security updates.

Anatra will be unavailable for up to one day. During this time, users will be unable to access the cluster or submit new jobs. Running jobs may also be interrupted or fail and may need to be resubmitted.

Users should avoid submitting jobs that may still be running when the maintenance begins.

This essential maintenance will ...

We will be migrating the storage platform supporting several University websites and web services from 07:30 on Tuesday 17 November 2026.

University websites are expected to remain generally available during the maintenance. However, some functions that require content to be added or updated may be unavailable for approximately 90 minutes while the migration is completed.

This work will move website data onto a modern, fully supported platform, providing encrypted data storage and i...

REDCap will undergo planned maintenance from 08:30 on Monday 16 November 2026 to apply the latest software updates.

No service disruption is expected while the update is completed. However, the service should be considered at risk during the maintenance window.

This work will help ensure REDCap remains secure, reliable, up to date, and fully supported.

We will monitor the service following the update and take action if any issues arise.

iTrent will undergo urgent maintenance from 08:00 on Monday 16 November 2026 to apply an important software update.

The service will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes while the update is applied. Anyone using iTrent at the time will be disconnected.

This essential maintenance is required to preserve existing functionality and ensure iTrent continues to operate correctly following upcoming changes to web browsers.

The service is expected to return to normal shortly after the updat...

Anatra HPC will undergo planned maintenance on Monday 16 November 2026 to improve how memory is allocated to submitted jobs.

The cluster will remain available, although job submission may be briefly unavailable for up to a few minutes while the updated configuration is applied. Running jobs are not expected to be affected.

Following the change, jobs that do not specify their memory requirements will receive a default allocation based on the selected partition. Jobs that already requ...

Business Objects for SAMIS will be restarted at 17:00 on Thursday as part of planned maintenance.

The service will be briefly unavailable while the restart is completed.

The service is expected to return to normal shortly afterwards. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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We are carrying out a further phase of our on-campus file storage migration from our existing systems to a new storage solution. This work may cause planned, temporary disruption to departmental research file storage.

During the maintenance windows, the following X Drive locations will be synchronised and may be unavailable from 07:30 for up to two hours:

• 9 November 2026: X:\Education\ResearchProjects
• 10 November 2026: X:\Maths\ResearchProjects
• 11 November 2026: X:\Man...

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Maintenance ended

Maintenance ended