Data Center Expansion Schedule

This page will be updated as schedules are made available.

Detailed Project Schedule - Upcoming Work:

  • CBLS Power Outage
    • Monday, November 17, 2025 8-10am
    • Because nearly all CCR HPC infrastructure has been moved to the off-site data center and all other CCR infrastructure is on emergency circuits/generator, there is no expectation of a large scale outage.  All HPC services (networking, storage, portals) and the UB-HPC cluster will be online.  Most of the faculty cluster will be online.
    • Rack v12 of the faculty cluster remains at CBLS and will be offline starting Monday, November 17 at 7:30am.  Nodes will be brought back online immediately following the power restoration
    • This work is necessary to prepare for load bank testing on the UPS
    • Empire AI resources WILL be offline during this period.  Please refer to the Empire AI alerts for updated information
  • Load Bank Testing - UPS
    • Tuesday, November 18-21, 2025
    • Facilities will be testing the new UPS system during this time period
    • There is no expected affect on CCR's systems
    • Employees are encouraged to avoid the first floor of the CBLS building

Completed Work:

  • CBLS Building Power Outage:
    • COMPLETED
    • Saturday, November 8, 2025 6am - 6pm
    • This power outage will affect the entire CBLS building except for emergency power circuits
    • Because nearly all CCR HPC infrastructure will be moved by this point and all other CCR infrastructure is on emergency circuits/generator, there is no expectation of a large scale outage.  All HPC services (networking, storage, portals) and the UB-HPC cluster will be online.  Most of the faculty cluster will be online.
    • Rack v12 of the faculty cluster remains at CBLS and will be offline starting Friday, November 7 at 12pm, until Monday morning.
    • Building occupants have been notified with additional details
    • This work is necessary to bring an additional power feed to the CBLS data center
    • Empire AI resources WILL be offline during this period, shutting down on Friday, November 7 at 12pm.  The expectation is that power will be restored on Saturday evening and, baring any issues, the cluster will be returned to production.  Please refer to the Empire AI alerts for updated information
  • Phase 2 Relocation - Move 2: 
    • COMPLETED
    • Tuesday, November 4, 2025
    • Racks: q06, q07, q08, q09, v05, v09
    • These racks will be offline beginning Monday, November 3 at 7am
    • It is anticipated that the racks will be back online by the end of the day Tuesday.
  • Phase 2 Relocation - Move 1: 
    • COMPLETED
    • Thursday, October 30, 2025
    • Racks: h22, h23, h24, h25, m24, v10, v11
    • These racks will be offline beginning Wednesday, October 29 at 7am
    • It is anticipated that the racks will be back online by the end of the day Thursday.
  • Phase 1 Relocation - Move 3: 
    • COMPLETED
    • Tuesday, September 9
    • Nodes offline Monday, September 8 at 7am
    • Relocation of Emerald Rapids compute nodes
    • UB-HPC racks:  i08, i09, i10, i11, i12, i13
  • CBLS Data Center Power Outage #2: September 2-5, 2025
    • COMPLETED
    • Beginning at 3pm on Tuesday September 2 we will shut down affected servers and services.  
    • As soon as electrical work is completed, CCR staff will return the HPC infrastructure to production.  This is anticipated to be the morning of Friday, September 5.
    • Compute nodes remaining in the CBLS data centerwill be powered off 
    • The Vast storage system and the compute nodes in the new data center will be available for jobs
  • Phase 1 Relocation - Move 2: 
    • COMPLETED
    • Wednesday, September 3
    • Relocation of faculty Genoa & Sapphire Rapids compute nodes
    • Faculty racks:  f12, f13, f14, f15, f16, v07
  • Phase 1 Relocation - Move 1: 
    • COMPLETED
    • Monday, August 11
    • Relocation of Sapphire Rapids compute nodes
    • UB-HPC racks:  i14, i15, i16
    • Faculty racks:  p27, p28 
    • Anticipated availability of compute nodes:  Tuesday, August 12
  • CBLS Data Center Power Outage:  Friday, August 8 - Monday, August 11
    • COMPLETED
    • CBLS Data Center power outage for UPS replacement
    • ALL CCR and Empire AI HPC infrastructure will be unavailable for the duration of this outage:
      • CCR:
        • UB-HPC & Faculty clusters
        • Login and compile nodes
        • OnDemand
      • Empire AI:
        • Alpha cluster
        • Login nodes