Hydra Status

Hydra is down for emergency maintenance as of Monday, May 18, 2026 at 08:00 ET. We anticipate that the shutdown will last until the end-of-day Wednesday, May 20. Every cluster service will be affected: login nodes, compute nodes, Globus, the R Studio Server, and storage access.

We will apply a kernel security update on every host on the cluster. Rolling it into the next regular maintenance cycle would leave the cluster exposed longer than is acceptable.

During that time all logins will remain disabled,
and there will be no access to any files stored on Hydra.

As of Mon at 8AM ET

  • All the running jobs will be terminated.
  • All the queued jobs will be killed.
  • All the interactive sessions will be killed.
  • All Globus transfers will be interrupted.
  • Storage and data will be unavailable for the duration of the shutdown.
A return-to-service notice will go out once the cluster is back up and validated.

Please contact SI-HPC-Admin@si.edu with any questions.