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Unscheduled Bell Outage

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Link to update at March 14, 2025 5:08pm EDT UPDATE:

As of 5pm, Bell's scratch filesystem has returned to expected levels of performance and job scheduling has been resumed.

Link to update at March 14, 2025 2:01pm EDT UPDATE:

As of 2pm, our work continues on restoring Bell's scratch filesystem to expected levels of performance and job scheduling remains paused. Our storage team is working closely with the vendor and they believe they have identified the cause of this issue. We will provide another update by 5pm.

Link to original posting ORIGINAL:

At around 11:00am, Bell's scratch filesystem began to show signs of a severe performance degradation. We have paused job scheduling on Bell while engineers investigate the slow down and work to brings things back up to speed.

We will provide an update by 2pm.

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