MGHPCC 2026 Shutdown - Initial Communication

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Motivation

Let cusomers know we will have a shut down soon.

Completion Criteria

Description

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ESI Email Draft

Subject: MGHPCC (Holyoke) Annual Power Shutdown [June X, 2025 3:00 PM ET - June X, 2025 5:00 PM ET] (multi-day)

Attention ESI Users,

Due to the annual MGHPCC (Holyoke data center) power maintenance as well as other maintenance activities, the New England Research Cloud (NERC) services will be unavailable from Xday, June Xnd, 3 PM until Xday, June Xth, 5 PM.

• ESI Services
  We have worked to reduce the total outage time this year. Our goal is to resume full services by the end of Xday, June Xth, at 5 PM or earlier. Please refer to the timeline below for details:

NOTICES

• The estimated time for power-up and return to full service is 5 PM on Xday, June Xth. We encourage you to monitor the progress at https://nerc.instatus.com/ during this time.
• Please subscribe to the NERC’s status for any future updates as they happen: https://nerc.instatus.com/subscribe/email

Our priority is helping make research happen. If you or your research team have any questions or need to escalate an issue, please do not hesitate to contact us via The esi slack channel

Thanks,

Michael Daitzman

Completion dates

Desired - 2026-04-09
Required - 2026-04-30