Bell
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 8:00am EST on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 , and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Clusters Bell, Geddes and Gilbreth experiencing outages as of 4PM Tuesday March 12th. Engineers are working to resolve the problem. Access to these clusters is impacted and running jobs may have stopped. We will provide an update Tuesday March 12th a...
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The Bell cluster will be unavailable Monday, April 29, 2024 from 10:30am - 10:50am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Monday, April 29th, 2024 at 10:50am EDT. During this time, Bell job submission will be dow...
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In-person Coffee-Hour Consultation Location Change
Our in-person consulting hours (a.k.a. "coffee hour") location will be changing effectively immediately. RCAC staff have offered in-person consulting at the Convergence Center on campus downstairs in the lobby (and/or cafe area) for more th...
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The Bell cluster will be unavailable beginning on Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, June 27th, 2024 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Bell will have the operatin...
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The Bell cluster will be unavailable beginning on Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 at 5:03pm EDT. During this time, Bell will have the operatin...
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The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with the /scratch filesystem at around 5pm today. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will p...
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The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with the /scratch filesystem. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix for some files being unavailable. We will provide an update by 6pm.
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Starting around 3:00PM eastern time, Bell's scratch file system began to experience service interruptions and periods of unresponsiveness to user requests. These events were caused by faulty hardware and engineers have temporarily mitigated the probl...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
Shortly before 9:00AM eastern time, many RCAC clusters experienced a power interruption which interrupted some work due to a campus power outage. UPDATE: Engineers have arrived on campus and found additional impacts from today's power interruption. S...
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The Bell cluster will be unavailable on Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 between 8:00am and 12:00pm EDT for an out of band maintenance to improve scratch storage performance that has impacted some users recently. This work is scheduled to be done as so...
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Staff Availability and Coffee-Hour Schedule
Research Computing personnel, including a significant number of the support staff, will be attending the SC24 conference on the week of November 18th. There are no planned reductions in service and staff will continue to monitor the ticketing system...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 12:00am EST on Monday, December 23rd, 2024, and will resume normal business hours on Thursday, January 2nd, 2025. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Unscheduled Storage Permissions Outage
Data Depot and other group-restricted spaces began experiencing issues with file permissions around 5pm. Users will notice a "permission denied" error when attempting to access spaces they normally would be able to read based on their unix...
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The Bell cluster will be unavailable from Monday, January 27th, 2025 at 8:00am EST to Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 at 5:00pm EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, RCAC staff will reorganize the data center space for Bell and upgrade its Lus...
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RCAC License Server Maintaince
Update: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at 6:12pm EST This is a reminder that the RCAC license server will be unavailable on today from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST for scheduled maintenance. Licenses hosted by RCAC will be unavailable for checkout for the...
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Bell Maintenance Application Version Announcement
As part of Bell's upcoming maintenance, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8 which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Bell. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and unused ver...
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Bell Maintenance Test Environment Available to Users
As part of Bell's maintenance on March 4-5, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8, which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Bell. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and unuse...
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The Bell cluster is scheduled for maintenance and will be unavailable on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 at 8:00am EST through Wednesday, March 5th, 2025 at 5:00pm EST. During this maintenance, Bell will have its software stack modernized. What is being upg...
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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 upda...