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Unscheduled Bell outage

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Link to update at March 15, 2023 10:49pm EDT UPDATE:

As of 10:49pm EDT, engineers resolved the problem with the Bell scratch filesystem and the cluster has been returned to normal service. Job queues have been enabled and job scheduling has been resumed. We apologize for the disruption of service. Please report any issues to rcac-help@purdue.edu.

Link to original posting ORIGINAL:

The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 7:50pm EDT. File access operations (e.g. ls) may appear hanging. Logins to the Open OnDemand gateway (gateway.bell.rcac.purdue.edu) may appear sluggish or hanging as well.

Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working with the storage vendor to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed.

We will provide an update by 10 am tomorrow.

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