ARC Maintenance Outages

ARC systems will be taken offline regularly to perform essential maintenance tasks which are unreasonable to perform during normal operations. During these outages, the systems will be inaccessible to researchers and students and jobs will not run.

Regular Cycle

Starting in 2023, ARC established an annual senquence of maintenance outages at regular intervals to help make these service interruptions more predictable. Each year there will be three planned maintenance outages. The exact dates will vary from year to year but follow this pattern:

Maintenance

Occurence

Duration

Winter

First week of the Spring Semester

3 days

Summer

Mid-May, 1-2 weeks after VT Spring commencement

5 days

Fall

Early-August 1-2 weeks before start of classes

3 days

2024 Scheduled Maintenance Dates

Note

These tentative dates are subject to changes in the VT academic calendar or to meet ARC needs.

Maintenance

Occurence

Duration

Winter

January 16-18, 2024 (Tu-Th)

3 days

Summer

May 20-24, 2024 (M-F)

5 days

Fall

August 19-21, 2024 (M-W)

3 days

Historical Maintenance Schedule

2023 Maintenance Dates

Maintenance

Occurence

Duration

Summary Info

Winter

January 17-19, 2023 (Tu-Th)

3 days

Summer

May 15-19, 2023 (M-F)

5 days

Notes

Fall

August 14-16, 2023 (M-W)

3 days