About ABCI

Operation Status

Current Operation Status and Problem Status

(As of Dec 06, 2024)

Start Date Time End Date Time The Current Operation Status and the Problem Status
Tue, Nov 26, 2024 12:00 Mon, Dec 16, 2024 17:00 Due to power supply equipment maintenance, the ABCI 2.0 interactive node and user portal are down.

Future Operation Schedule

(As of Dec 06, 2024)

Start Date Time End Date Time The Future Operation Schedule
(Planned schedule may be changed.)
Sat, Dec 7, 2024 00:00 03:00 Up to two 15-minute communication outages will occur due to network line construction, which halted communication between ABCI and the outside world.
Mon, Dec 23, 2024 13:00 Tue, Jan 7, 2025 11:00 User portal service is temporarily unavailable due to equipment maintenance.
Thu, Dec 26, 2024 13:00 Tue, Jan 7, 2025 11:00 Due to equipment maintenance, the ABCI 2.0 Interactive Node and User Portal Service are temporarily unavailable.
- Tue, Dec 31, 2024 ABCI 2.0/bb will be terminated. If you have the necessary data, please migrate your data to another storage by yourself. For more information, please refer to here.
- Sun, Mar 30, 2025 17:00 ABCI 2.0 Cloud Storage will be termina ted. If you have data you need, please migrate your data to another storage by yourself. For more information, please refer to here.

Past System Outages

(As of Nov 26, 2024)

Start Date Time End Date Time Past System Outages
Mon, Nov 18,2024 15:00 Tue, Nov 26, 12:00 ・While the system administrator is performing the data migration of the ABCI 2.0 home area (/home), the ABCI 2.0 interactive node will be unavailable.
・The User Portal will not be shut down. It will continue to be available.
For details, please refer to here.
Please understand that there is a possibility of maintenance occurring immediately below.
Mon, Nov 11, 23:50 Thu, Nov 12, 2024 22:10 Due to a power failure, the following services have stopped
 ・ABCI 2.0 Cloud Storage
 ・ABCI 2.0 Singularity Endpoint
Mon, Nov 11, 2024 23:50 Thu, Nov 12, 2024 18:30 ABCI 2.0 Interactive Nodes and User Portal are currently unavailable due to a power failure.
Thu, Oct 31, 2024 14:00 Mon, Nov 11, 2024 15:00 ABCI 2.0 has stopped completely, and the following services have been retired.
The following services will be terminated. If you have data you need, please migrate your data to another storage by yourself.
 ・ABCI 2.0 Compute nodes (V), Compute nodes (A)
 ・ABCI 2.0 local storage (local scratch, persistent local scratch (Reserved only), BeeOND storage)
 ・ABCI 2.0 New /scratch being offered since July
For details, please refer to the following.
 ・For more information about compute nodes and the user portal, please refer to here.
 ・For storage, please refer to here.
The following is an update on the features that will be available after the reopening on 11/11 at 15:00

ABCI 2.0 interactive nodes and the user portal with some restrictions are back in operation.
 ・Please migrate necessary data on ABCI 2.0 storage such as /groups and /bb from interactive nodes to ABCI 3.0 group area (/groups-new) by users themselves.
 For details, please refer to here.
 There are some restrictions on the User Portal.
 Please click here for details .
 ・Please migrate your data and use the User Portal as soon as possible, as it is scheduled to be down for maintenance in the future.
Thu, Oct 31, 2024 14:00 Mon, Nov 11, 15:00 ABCI2.0 Interactive Node and User Portal will be down for network maintenance, etc.
Fry, Oct 25, 2024 Thu, Oct 31 Since 10/25, 191 compute nodes (V) are out of service and ABCI is in degenerate operation.
Thu, Oct 17, 2024 Thu, Oct 24 Since 10/17, 185 compute nodes (V) are out of service and ABCI is in degenerate operation.
Fry, Sep 27, 2024 Wed, Oct 16 Since 9/27, 171 compute nodes (V) are out of service and ABCI is in degenerate operation.
Tue, Sep 24, 2024 17:00 Tue, Oct 31, 14:00 Since 9/24 17:00, 166 compute nodes (V) are out of service and ABCI is in degenerate operation.
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 09:00 Tue, Sep 24 17:00 ABCI is out of service due to the maintenance of the water cooling system and etc.
Fri, Aug 30, 2024 17:00 Tue, Sep 17 9:00 Since 8/30 17:00, 157 compute nodes (V) are out of service and ABCI is in degenerate operation.
Mon, Sep 2, 2024 09:50 10:55 Compute nodes were not able to run jobs. This problem has already been resolved.
Fri, Aug 16, 2024 13:00 Fri, Aug 30 17:00 ABCI is out of service due to the electric power outage and other maintenance.
Please refer to [System Updates (2024-08-30)] for update during Aug 12 to Aug 30.
Fri, Jul 12, 2024 17:00 Fri, Aug 30 17:00 Since 7/12 17:00, 121 compute nodes (V) are out of service and ABCI is in degenerate operation.
Fri, Jun 28, 2024 13:00 Fri, Jul 12 17:00 ABCI is out of service due to the maintenance of the water cooling system and etc.
Please refer to [System Updates (2024-06-28)] for update during Jun 28 to Jul 12.
- Fri, Jun 28, 2024 13:00 The storages under /scratch and /projects will no longer be provided. If you have necessary data, please migrate your data to another storage by yourself by June 28 1:00pm.
Please refer to [System Updates (2024-06-28)] for more details.
Sat, May 18, 2024 00:00 01:30 Network communication between ABCI and INTERNET will be down due to network maintenance.
- During this period, communication breakdowns of up to a quarter hour duration occurred up to twice.
- ABCI interactive nodes, ABCI cloud storage and ABCI User Portal will be inaccessible.
- The batch jobs with the INTERNET access will be affected.
- Example: Communicating with a license server outside of ABCI, using ABCI cloud storage, etc.
- Batch jobs that do not require external access and are processed only inside ABCI will not be affected.
Fri, Apr 26, 2024 14:54 Fri, Apr 26 22:00 ABCI has failed due to the unexpected power outage.
Tue, Apr 23, 2024 23:05 Wed, Apr 24 20:30 ABCI is out of service due to the unexpected power outage.
Wed, Apr 17, 2024 10:00 11:30 On April 16 at around 20:30, failure was confirmed on es1. We are experiencing a phenomenon where the Group Area in /groups is sometimes inaccessible. We will stop es1 at 10:00 today to restore it. Please use es2 if you are using Node (V).

System Outage Status before March 31, 2024

ABCI Service Start and End Dates

(As of Sep 12, 2024)

Date Time ABCI Service
Fri, Jul 20, 2018 14:00 The ABCI user portal has started accepting ABCI group/account applications.
Wed, Aug 1, 2018 13:00 ABCI has started providing services.
Tue, Dec 17, 2019 0:00 ABCI has started providing service of new computing resources, rt_M.large and rt_M.small.
Wed, Jan 1, 2020 0:00 The ABCI Cloud Storage Service started officially.
Mon, May 10, 2021 13:00 “ABCI 2.0” ( Compute Node(A) ) has started providing services.
Fri, Oct 27, 2023 15:00 The compute resource types rt_M.large and rt_M.small provided on the memory-intensive nodes are no longer in service.
Fri, Jun 28, 2024 Specific group areas (/projects) and global scratch areas (/scratch) are no longer available.
Thu, Oct 31, 2024 14:00 The following services will be terminated.
 ・ABCI 2.0 Compute nodes (V), compute nodes (A)
 ・ABCI 2.0 local storage (local scratch, persistent local scratch (Reserved only), BeeOND storage)
 ・ABCI 2. 0 New /scratch available since July
Tue, Des, 31, 2024 ABCI 2.0 /bb service will be terminated.
Sun, Mar, 30, 2025 17:00 ABCI 2.0 Cloud Storage service will be terminated.