Research Computing and Data

Summer 2026 Palmetto Maintenance Scheduled

The RCD team has scheduled its annual summer maintenance for Palmetto 2 and Indigo before the start of the Fall semester.

Maintenance will begin on Friday, August 7, 2026, at 9:00 AM. During the maintenance window, all RCD services will be unavailable.

The planned maintenance includes:

  • Minor operating system upgrades
  • Upgrades to the Indigo Data Lake

These updates are necessary to maintain the security, reliability, and stability of the cluster for the Fall semester.

There are no plans to purge scratch storage during this maintenance. However, users should remember that scratch storage is not backed up. Any important data should be stored in home or project storage.

The summer maintenance is scheduled to conclude on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, at 9:00 AM. If maintenance is completed ahead of schedule, RCD will notify users by email as services become available.