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Information notices
For regular users of our BigBlueButton service, the migration of all rooms and recordings from https://meet.gwdg.de/ to https://meet.academiccloud.de/, which was completed in February, is certainly nothing new. If you go to the old website, you will also see a clear banner indicating the new address and containing more detailed information.
The new infrastructure is stable and productive. We are therefore planning to shut down the old system for good. To ensure that links to old rooms or...
As our AI services evolve from a research initiative within KISSKI to a core offering, we are introducing usage limits for external AI models to ensure long-term sustainability and fair access for all users. Starting May 25, 2026, these limits will apply to all integrated external providers, including OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), and ElevenLabs.
What does this mean for you?
Usage limits will be applied at the organisational level as a first step, ensuring that resources are...
Scheduled maintenances
We plan to update the Slurm version on the EMMY cluster from version 25.11.5 to version 26.05.1 on 18.06.2026 between 17:00 and 19:00. During this period, Slurm’s interactive programs (sinfo, sacct, srun, sbatch, etc.) will not be available for a few minutes and new jobs will not be accepted or started. Jobs already running will not be affected.
As part of routine maintenance work, we are updating the Whiteboard Kubernetes cluster. This may result in the Collaboard service at https://whiteboard.academiccloud.de being unavailable for a short time between 17:00 and 19:00 on Thursday, 18.06.2026. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Dear VMware users,
due to maintenance work, the vCenter will be restarted on Thursday, 18 June, during the maintenance window starting at 17:00 and will therefore be temporarily
unavailable. Once it is available again, some follow-up work will need to be carried out on the jump hosts until a connection can be established without any issues.
VM operations will not be affected by the maintenance.
We would like to inform you that the Kubernetes cluster on which the productive Rancher installation of the GWDG runs will be upgraded to a higher version. During this maintenance work, access to Rancher (https://prod.rancher.gwdg.de) may be subject to sporadic outages.
The K8s clusters managed by Rancher are not affected by the upgrade. However, if access to the K8s API is required during this time, we recommend using your own API IP address instead of the proxy option via Rancher.
We...
Dear Gitlab Users, for our upcoming upgrade to Gitlab v19, Gitlab will be unavailable on Thursday, 25.06.2025 from 5:00 pm to approximately 7:00 pm.
Past Incidents
Due to short-term system work, there will be short interruptions to our WWW cache service on 15.06.2026 from 5 pm.
The service is available again without restrictions.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Service is back up.
This maintenance has been concluded as planned.