Information notices
Dear operators of the service providers,
from February 17, 2026 to February 19, 2026 a certificate change will be carried out for the following Identity Providers (IdPs):
- shibboleth-idp.gwdg.de
- shibboleth-idp.uni-goettingen.de
* shibboleth-idp.mpg.de
During this period, the IDP SAML certificates are renewed once.
This process usually runs without restrictions, as both certificates are configured in parallel during a short transition phase.
Certificate change process
- Tuesday,...
Jupyter-Cloud: state of the service
The reliability of the service Jupyter-Cloud (https://jupyter-cloud.gwdg.de) is degraded after having suffered several outages and limitations in the final weeks of 2025. At present the service operates normally but the underlying issue remains unresolved.
The symptoms
At undetermined times and under unknown circumstances users newly trying to log into the service where unable to start their notebook server (timeout) and thus unable to access their...
New service: CoCal & instructions for importing LaTeX documents
The CoCalc service is now available for general use: https://cocalc.gwdg.de
The service provides a toolbox for working with LaTeX and Markdown documents, executing code in Python and Julia, and working with Jupyter Notebooks and a dedicated JupyterLab server.
Instructions & Documentation
General and comprehensive documentation is available from the developers of CoCalc:
- Getting Started:...
Scheduled maintenances
Maintenance work on the Matrix chat system
Due to maintenance work and updates, the Matrix chat server will be down for about 10 minutes between 5 and 7 pm. All Matrix instances (AcadmicCloud, MPG, UMG, University of Göttingen, GWDG) are affected.
The SharePoint farm will be under maintenance and not available. This will affect all sites starting with one of the following URLs:
https://intern.uni-goettingen.de/
https://it-goettingen.de/
https://mydocs.uni-goettingen.de/
https://mysite.gwdg.de/
https://share.mpibpc.mpg.de/
https://sharepoint.gwdg.de/
https://sharepoint.mpg.de/
https://sharepoint.uni-goettingen.de/
https://sp.umg.eu/
List of upcoming maintenance dates:
...
Starting on Tuesday, 2026-02-17, some StorNext-Filesystems will be migrated to new Hardware.
This migration requires a Downtime.
On 2026-02-17 the following following filesystems will be migrated from 07:00:
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MBBF
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MNPL
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MPG
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MPG04N
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MPG10300
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MPG10300gnom
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MPG10300mako
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MPG10300xray
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SPEC
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UNI
On 2026-02-18 the following following filesystems will be migrated from 07:00:
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ARCHIV
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BIOINFO
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GDZ01
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HPC_HSM
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MBPC10500
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WFS_UNI01
The...
Dear operators of the service providers,
from February 17, 2026 to February 19, 2026 a certificate change will be carried out for the following Identity Providers (IdPs):
- shibboleth-idp.gwdg.de
- shibboleth-idp.uni-goettingen.de
* shibboleth-idp.mpg.de
During this period, the IDP SAML certificates are renewed once.
This process usually runs without restrictions, as both certificates are configured in parallel during a short transition phase.
Certificate change process
- Tuesday,...
Status