Bell
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Community Cluster Life Cycles Extended to 6 Years
For the last several years, we've heard your input around longer lifespans for community clusters, and now, thanks to the end of Moore's Law, it makes sense to begin adjusting to a longer lifespan. Following an announcement July 31 at the annual Comm...
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Bell Cluster Deployment Status
Based on the AMD Epyc "Rome" processor, Bell is entering the final stages of deployment. Dell and AMD were tremendous partners with Bell and with their help we were able to make Bell the most powerful system ever deployed at Purdue, while s...
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Bell will be unavailable Tuesday night through Thursday
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...
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Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday
The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's int...
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Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS Clusters Maintenance
The Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS clusters will be unavailable Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, the clusters will have their operating...
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Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday
The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to fine-tune performance of the Bell scratch filesystem and...
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Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday
The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will work on finalizing the cluster's internal configuration. Both cluster front-ends and compute nodes...
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The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 11:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, work will be performed on several auxiliary servers. Prior to the maintenance, any SLURM jobs which request a walltime which...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2021. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Access to RCAC Resources During ITaP Central Authentication Outage
On Sunday, December 27th, 2020, ITaP staff will perform major upgrades to the central authentication infrastructure. All applications that require logging in with BoilerKey or Career Account credentials will be unavailable Sunday, December 27, 2020 f...
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The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with metadata on its scratch filesystem around 9:00pm. The problem manifests itself as ls -l command hangs indefinitely, while the plain regular ls (or \ls, or stat FILE) appear to be working. Engineers are...
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The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 5:00am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and have opened the ticket with the vendor to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is be...
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The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 4:00pm EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and have opened a ticket with the vendor to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is bein...
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The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 10:00pm EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. To avoid job losses for...
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The Data Depot storage server began experiencing issues around 3:00pm EST on Thursday, February 4th, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all clusters while this issue...
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The Bell cluster will be unavailable Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Bell will have a maintenance upgrade performed on the software com...
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ANSYS Fluent software unavailable on Bell
We have received multiple reports about ANSYS Fluent software on Bell cluster being unavailable. We are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 6pm tonight.
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Unscheduled outage on multiple clusters
Due to problems with cooling system in the MATH datacenter, the CMS, Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, WCERES, and WSC Hadoop clusters began experiencing issues around 4:00pm EDT. Multiple front-end, compute and storage services are affected. Engineer...
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Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance
The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop clusters) will be unavailable Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT for Data Depot migration work. The clust...
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Intermittent Access Failures on Data Depot
As of Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience intermittent "permission denied" errors while trying to access their files on Data Depot. Errors may come and go, and may appear on both login and c...