Bell will be unavailable Tuesday night through Thursday
Link to update at October 23, 2020 7:46pm EDT UPDATE:
As of 7:45 approximately half the cluster, including the highmem nodes has been returned to early access testing status. Benchmarking and configuration testing will continue on the other half.
We will close this outage notice but will continue to update Bell early users on its status.
Link to update at October 23, 2020 6:58pm EDT UPDATE:
As of 7:00 pm, reconfiguration of the cluster for partial return to service is ongoing. We will post an update by 10:00 pm
Link to update at October 23, 2020 4:07pm EDT UPDATE:
Some benchmarking and configuration testing is still ongoing, but we will return approximately half the cluster for early access user testing. Reconfiguration for this use is going on now, and we will update the status by 7:00 pm tonight.
Link to update at October 23, 2020 11:49am EDT UPDATE:
Benchmarking and testing of inter-node communication is ongoing. We will post an update by 4:00 pm today.
Link to update at October 23, 2020 10:00am EDT UPDATE:
As of 10:00 am, benchmarking is still ongoing. We will provide another update by noon today.
Link to update at October 22, 2020 8:22pm EDT UPDATE:
As of 8:00 pm Thursday, benchmarking on the Bell cluster is ongoing. We will extend the outage to ensure our Engineering team has sufficient time to reconfigure the cluster for production use when benchmarking is done and test it for usability.
We will update this article by 10:00 am Friday, 23 October.
Link to original posting ORIGINAL:
The Bell Cluster will be unavailable Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 8:00pm EDT. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's internal configuration.
During this time users will still be able to login for limited code testing, but jobs will not run on the compute nodes.