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A serious security problem in data serialization was recently disclosed which applies to all versions of R prior to R 4.4.0. This is considered a high risk vulnerability. UW Cybersecurity recommends that everyone switch to …

That file server is rebooting, which will take until about 5pm to finish. We will put updates here as we have them. 4:00pm – the file server is back up and serving files again.

11:00am. The fileserver for most /z/Comp directories is back up after a recovery from a reboot due to a hardware error.      

11:00am. The file server for most /z/Comp directories had a hardware error. It is currently rebooting (which can take a while given the size of its file systems). We will add updates to this post. …

One of the file servers is intermittently getting extremely slow. This will often make desktop machines look like they are locked up. We are investigating this now. We will update this notice when we have …

We are experiencing slowness and communication breaks with one of our file servers used for home directories. We are looking into this now. 10:20am – The service is stable again.

Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 10:45am. The work has been completed. In order to update some of the power infrastructure in one of our server rooms, there will be a few temporary outages on Saturday, December …

Starting August 26th, the new default version of R is 4.2.1. If you need to continue to use the previous version, the command R41 will start the previous default.

The main user home directory file server will be getting an urgent update and a reboot on Saturday, August 12th, and will be out from noon to about 2:00pm. This file server also holds many …

As a consequence of yesterday’s instability, the file server that serves /z/Comp is currently rebooting. This can take up to two hours, due to the size of the file systems. 4:15pm. We have identified a …