{ "format_version": "1", "case": "facility-status", "title": "NERSC facility status", "question": "Is Perlmutter up on the recorded board, and is maintenance scheduled?", "mode": "recorded", "simulation": false, "registry_revision": "2026-11-09", "generated_at": null, "replay_clock": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "timestamp_note": "Envelope retrieval timestamps use a fixed replay clock, not publisher retrieval times. Actual fixture capture times appear in the manifest; null means unrecorded.", "fixtures": [ { "file": "nersc-status.json", "sha256": "1d6915f666940b312c349bfb9e9dcb32e123e89850582f3f7b2e282aeda911a7", "captured_at": "2026-10-08T23:12:37.080875+00:00" } ], "limitations": [ "One facility. ALCF and OLCF are registered and not read here; their absence says nothing about whether they are up.", "Status is not queue position, allocation or permission to run a job.", "The board's timestamps carry no time zone, and updated_at is the last change, not the last check. This is a recorded board, not current status." ], "steps": [ { "tool": "compute.facility_status", "args": {}, "envelope": { "data": { "facility": "NERSC", "systems": [ { "name": "perlmutter", "full_name": "Perlmutter", "type": "compute", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-09-22T17:00:00" }, { "name": "global_common", "full_name": "Global Common", "type": "filesystem", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00" }, { "name": "community_filesystem", "full_name": "Community File System (CFS)", "type": "filesystem", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00" }, { "name": "global_homes", "full_name": "Global Homes", "type": "filesystem", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-08-06T15:30:30" }, { "name": "dtns", "full_name": "Data Transfer Nodes", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-09-24T11:00:00" }, { "name": "sgns", "full_name": "Science Gateway Services", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00" }, { "name": "sciencedatabases", "full_name": "Science Databases", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-09-16T12:15:00" }, { "name": "spin", "full_name": "Spin", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-09-16T17:40:00" }, { "name": "globus", "full_name": "Globus", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00" }, { "name": "jupyter", "full_name": "Jupyter", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-08-16T08:55:00" }, { "name": "website", "full_name": "NERSC Website", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-06-09T15:25:00" }, { "name": "network", "full_name": "Network", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-09-16T10:21:00" }, { "name": "authentication_servi", "full_name": "Authentication Services", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-09-01T11:00:00" }, { "name": "thinlinc", "full_name": "Thinlinc", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-09-21T09:25:00" }, { "name": "helpportal", "full_name": "Help Portal", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00" }, { "name": "iris", "full_name": "IRIS", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-10-08T14:05:00" }, { "name": "archive", "full_name": "HPSS Archive (User)", "type": "filesystem", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-10-07T13:25:00" }, { "name": "container_runtimes", "full_name": "Container Runtimes", "type": "service", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-09-16T20:10:41" }, { "name": "regent", "full_name": "HPSS Regent (Backup)", "type": "filesystem", "status": "active", "description": "System is active", "notes": [], "updated_at": "2026-09-30T08:47:00" } ], "record_count": 19, "systems_on_board": 19, "not_active": [], "timestamps": "The board's timestamps carry no UTC offset and the response does not state a zone. They are printed as NERSC wrote them; NERSC is in Berkeley, California, but the zone is an inference this project does not make for the caller.", "note": "The facility's own public status board. updated_at is when a row last changed, not when it was checked, so an old date on an active system means a quiet system. Nothing here describes a user's jobs, queue or allocation.", "planned_outages": [ { "system": "container_runtimes", "start_at": "2026-10-21T06:00:00", "end_at": "2026-10-21T22:00:00", "description": "Perlmutter Monthly Maintenance", "notes": "NERSC engineers will be performing a monthly scheduled maintenance.", "status": "Planned" }, { "system": "perlmutter", "start_at": "2026-10-21T06:00:00", "end_at": "2026-10-21T22:00:00", "description": "Perlmutter Monthly Maintenance", "notes": "NERSC engineers will be performing a monthly scheduled maintenance.", "status": "Planned" }, { "system": "archive", "start_at": "2026-11-01T19:00:00", "end_at": "2026-11-06T17:00:00", "description": "HPSS Archive - Planned Maintenance", "notes": "HPSS Archive upgrade from V9.3 to V11.3. The main HPSS User environment, Archive, will be shut down from 7 pm (Pacific Time) on November 1 until 5 pm on November 6, 2026, while a new version of the system is deployed. During this five-day period, it will not be possible to store or retrieve data from the system. Users are strongly encouraged to plan accordingly.", "status": "Planned" }, { "system": "container_runtimes", "start_at": "2026-11-11T06:00:00", "end_at": "2026-11-11T22:00:00", "description": "Perlmutter Monthly Maintenance", "notes": "NERSC engineers will be performing a monthly scheduled maintenance.", "status": "Planned" }, { "system": "perlmutter", "start_at": "2026-11-11T06:00:00", "end_at": "2026-11-11T22:00:00", "description": "Perlmutter Monthly Maintenance", "notes": "NERSC engineers will be performing a monthly scheduled maintenance.", "status": "Planned" }, { "system": "container_runtimes", "start_at": "2026-12-16T06:00:00", "end_at": "2026-12-16T22:00:00", "description": "Perlmutter Monthly Maintenance", "notes": "NERSC engineers will be performing a monthly scheduled maintenance.", "status": "Planned" }, { "system": "perlmutter", "start_at": "2026-12-16T06:00:00", "end_at": "2026-12-16T22:00:00", "description": "Perlmutter Monthly Maintenance", "notes": "NERSC engineers will be performing a monthly scheduled maintenance.", "status": "Planned" } ], "other_facilities": [ { "source_id": "alcf-status", "name": "ALCF computing status", "why_not_read": "Blocked probe. The status page is an Angular application and its data paths return HTTP 403 with a Cloudflare challenge to a scripted client, which under decision 0007 is blocked_probe and NOT gated: a WAF refusing this client shape says nothing about whether the data is public. One real-browser check, watching the application's own network calls, would settle both the endpoint and the posture. Joins the blocked-probe backlog. Note, 2026-10-20. One plain GET of the status page answered 200 with the application shell, so the 403 did not recur; one probe from one machine is not evidence that the posture changed. The page's own data path was found and is not a candidate: it is undocumented and carries queued and running job records, which this project does not read for any facility. ALCF documents a separate machine route, its implementation of the IRI Facility API at api.alcf.anl.gov, whose status reads answered a plain GET with JSON. Under decision 0025 that is a different source with its own terms, and it waits on a terms review before it is registered; this manifest stays proposed until then." }, { "source_id": "olcf-status", "name": "OLCF center status", "why_not_read": "No machine interface found. status.olcf.ornl.gov does not resolve in DNS; the center-status page is a 1.5 KB stub; and the lab site's WordPress API exposes only WordPress's own routes, where /wp/v2/statuses is post statuses rather than system status. The next step is asking OLCF whether one exists rather than guessing at more paths." } ], "other_facilities_note": "Registered and not readable by DOE-MCP. Their absence from this answer says nothing about whether they are up." }, "provenance": [ { "id": "source_01", "source_id": "nersc-status", "steward": "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory", "funder": "Office of Science", "system": "NERSC Superfacility API (system status)", "dataset": "NERSC Superfacility API (system status)", "dataset_version": "current", "authority_level": "primary", "access_path": "live", "source_updated_at": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "cache_age_seconds": 0 } ], "evidence": [ { "id": "evidence_01", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "perlmutter", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-09-22T17:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_02", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "global_common", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_03", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "community_filesystem", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_04", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "global_homes", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-08-06T15:30:30", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_05", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "dtns", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-09-24T11:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_06", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "sgns", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_07", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "sciencedatabases", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-09-16T12:15:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_08", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "spin", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-09-16T17:40:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_09", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "globus", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_10", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "jupyter", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-08-16T08:55:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_11", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "website", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-06-09T15:25:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_12", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "network", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-09-16T10:21:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_13", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "authentication_servi", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-09-01T11:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_14", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "thinlinc", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-09-21T09:25:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_15", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "helpportal", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-08-03T17:35:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_16", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "iris", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-10-08T14:05:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_17", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "archive", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-10-07T13:25:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_18", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "container_runtimes", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-09-16T20:10:41", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_19", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "regent", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-09-30T08:47:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_20", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "container_runtimes@2026-10-21T06:00:00", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-10-21T06:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_21", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "perlmutter@2026-10-21T06:00:00", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-10-21T06:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_22", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "archive@2026-11-01T19:00:00", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-11-01T19:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_23", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "container_runtimes@2026-11-11T06:00:00", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-11-11T06:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_24", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "perlmutter@2026-11-11T06:00:00", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-11-11T06:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_25", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "container_runtimes@2026-12-16T06:00:00", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-12-16T06:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" }, { "id": "evidence_26", "source_ref": "source_01", "record_id": "perlmutter@2026-12-16T06:00:00", "locator": null, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "effective_at": "2026-12-16T06:00:00", "transformations": [], "payload_hash": null, "raw_recovery": "available" } ], "coverage": { "registry": "covered", "execution": "complete", "pagination": "complete", "source_claim": "complete", "result": "hit", "sources_searched": [ "nersc-status" ], "known_limitations": [ "One facility. OLCF and ALCF were checked on 2026-09-08: ALCF's status application answers a scripted client with an HTTP 403 challenge and OLCF publishes no machine interface that could be found. Both are registered (alcf-status, olcf-status) as proposed. On 2026-10-20 ALCF's documented IRI Facility API answered a plain status read; it awaits a terms review (see alcf-status).", "Planned outages only. The publisher's record of past outages is a separate route this tool does not read.", "Status, not availability for any user. Nothing about a user's jobs, queue position or allocation is public, and this project asks for none of it.", "Timestamps carry no UTC offset, and updated_at is when a row last changed, not when it was checked: a filesystem that has been fine for two months reads two months old." ] }, "warnings": [], "_execution": { "server": "doe-mcp", "server_version": "0.1.0.dev0", "tool": "compute.facility_status", "tool_contract_version": "1", "envelope_version": "1", "adapters": { "osti_family": "1", "opendatasoft": "1", "json_document": "1", "curated": "1", "eia_v2": "1", "fueleconomy": "1", "text_feed": "1", "postgrest": "1", "federal_register": "1", "vips": "1", "daymet": "1", "essdive": "1", "esgf": "1", "sage": "1", "optimade": "1", "basis_sets": "1", "facility_status": "1", "gcam_csv": "1", "nmdc": "1", "none": "1", "self_registry": "1" }, "registry_revision": "2026-11-09", "request_id": "recorded-workflow" } } } ] }