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Tuesday, May 20th, 2025

BisonNet Outage May 20 & May 21, 2025

BisonNet services will be unavailable beginning on May 20, 2025 at 7am until May 21, 2025 at 10pm. Please note that all BisonNet jobs will be terminated during this outage. As part of this outage, we’ll be upgrading the environment to a newer version of Linux. If you have installed/compiled any programs in your account, you may have to rebuild/reinstall those programs following the outage. Two additional notes: If you have any questions, please email bisonnet@bucknell.edu.

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Tuesday, August 6th, 2024

BisonNet Outage August 7, 2024

BisonNet services will be unavailable on August 7, 2024 from 8am until noon while maintenance is performed. Please note that all BisonNet jobs will be terminated during this outage. If you have any questions, please email bisonnet@bucknell.edu.

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Thursday, May 11th, 2023

BisonNet Outage May 16 & May 17, 2023

BisonNet services will be unavailable beginning on May 16, 2023 at 7am until May 17, 2023 at 10pm. Please note that all BisonNet jobs will be terminated during this outage. Also, as part of this outage, we’ll be upgrading the environment to a newer version of Linux. If you have installed/compiled any programs in your account, you may have to rebuild/reinstall those programs following the outage. If you have any questions, please email bisonnet@bucknell.edu.

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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023

BisonNet Outage on January 4, 2023

The BisonNet environment will be unavailable on January 4, 2023 from 7am-7pm while some maintenance is performed. Note that all BisonNet jobs will be terminated at the beginning of the outage. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this scheduled maintenance.

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Friday, July 8th, 2022

BisonNet Outage on August 9, 2022

The BisonNet environment will be unavailable from 8am-4pm on August 9, 2022. During this time, we’ll be replacing our storage system with new hardware and software. There are a couple of changes that we’d like to make you aware of as part of this change: This new storage system will restore the ability for people to map/mount a drive on your Windows/Mac/Linux system. Following the outage, new instructions will be available here: https://bisonnet.bucknell.edu/transferring-sharing-data/mapping-a-drive-to-or-mounting-your-hpc-storage/ Following this change, we will have the ability to set quotas on the amount of storage people use. Quotas are important as they make it much less likely that one […]

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