Bell
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The Data Depot storage system began experiencing issues starting around 4:30pm EDT 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 prov...
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Edit: The Data Depot file system has returned to full service and scheduling has resumed on all clusters. The Data Depot storage system began experience issues starting around 9am EDT this morning. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and ar...
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Edit: Data Depot functionality has been restored. The Data Depot file system began experiencing issues with writes around 2:30pm EDT. The data migration process currently ongoing from Data Depot 2 to Data Depot 3 ran into an unexpected problem. Engi...
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Bell and Negishi Cluster Maintenance
As part of an ongoing effort to renovate the Mathematical Sciences building (MATH) Data Center and expand its power and cooling capacity, the cooling loop connected to the Bell and Negishi clusters will undergo a maintenance between Thursday, August...
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As part of an ongoing effort to utilize modern features in the Slurm scheduler and to streamline the process of usage reporting for research groups--something that is often requested by various PIs, the scheduler configurations on the Bell cluster wi...
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When will it Happen? The Bell cluster is scheduled for maintenance and will be unavailable on Tuesday, July 29th, 2025 at 8:00am EDT until Wednesday, July 30th at 5:00pm EDT. What is being upgraded? During this maintenance, Bell will have its schedul...
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Today, RCAC user management systems sent incorrect email messages to many faculty partners and their resource managers. Please ignore any recent email about expirations or removals. You may verify who has access to your resources through our site www...
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Resources down due to power event
Update 3:40PM, EDT: All systems have been returned to full service and queues are accepting new jobs. Update: 3:00PM, EDT: Systems returning but queues are still paused on all clusters except for Bell and Hammer. Some clusters are waiting for full co...
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Account Provisioning and Access Issues
We’re currently seeing some delays with account provisioning and access for RCAC systems. The issue stems from upstream systems outside of our direct control. Please report any access issues to us as soon as you encounter them so we can assist and tr...
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RCAC systems are experiencing networking related issues that impact access to some destinations on the Internet. We are actively monitoring the situation and working to resolve the disruptions as quickly as possible. During this time, you may encount...
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Unscheduled Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth outage
At around 1:30 PM, Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth began to exhibit exessively high temperatures. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an update by 8:00 PM.
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Marina License Server Maintenance
Purdue IT's Marina license server will be unavailable on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 7:00am EDT to 9:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo an operating system upgrade. Licenses hosted on Marina will be una...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...