Due to another severe privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel, parts of the high-performance cluster are unavailable. The Linux-Pools PCs are not affected.

We are shutting down all machines running AlmaLinux 9. As a result, many CPU nodes and all GPU nodes will be temporarily unavailable.

As soon as a patch is available and has been applied, we will restore service.

This article is being updated continuously.

Update as of July 08, 2026: Kernel-Updates for AlmaLinux are ready for testing. However, we also need an overdue Lustre update to version 2.15.9.