Bell
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MATH Datacenter - Planned Power Outage: September 19–20, 2026
Planned Power Outage: September 19–20, 2026 As the renovation and capacity improvement project in the MATH datacenter moves into its final stages, a planned maintenance outage is required to continue bringing the newly installed power and cooling inf...
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The Bell cluster is currently experiencing an outage. Submitted jobs are not running at this time. We are investigating the issue. The cause and an estimated time to resolution are not yet available. We will provide an update as soon as possible or i...
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Upcoming Maintenance Notice: MATH Datacenter Renovation Progress (Saturday, August 15, 2026)
As of 6:30PM on August 16th 2026, all clusters have been brought back online. As of 3:30PM on August 16th 2026, all clusters with the exception of Gilbreth have been brought back online. As the renovation and capacity improvement project in the MATH...
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Bell Scratch Service Impacting Users with Errors
We are currently experiencing an issue with Bell Scratch that is causing users to receive “no space” errors and possibly other errors. We are working with our vendor to troubleshoot and restore service. There is no ETA for resolution at this time, an...
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Data Depot service disruption impacting schedulers
We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting Depot. Engineers are actively investigating. Schedulers are paused to prevent further impact while we work to stabilize the service. We will provide another update as soon as more informati...
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Data Depot related service disruption
We’re investigating an issue affecting access to Data Depot services following a network change made at 11:00 AM ET. Users may see a brief outage or stalled connections while we work to restore normal service. Our teams are actively investigating, an...
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Depot service disruption impacting schedulers
We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting Depot. The issue reoccurred after our earlier restoration, and engineers are actively investigating. Schedulers on Negishi, Rowdy, Gautschi, Bell, Scholar, and Gilbreth are paused to preven...
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Depot service disruption impacting schedulers
We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting Depot. The issue reoccurred after our earlier restoration, and engineers are actively investigating. Schedulers on Negishi, Rowdy, Gautschi, Bell, Scholar, and Gilbreth remain paused to pre...
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Depot issue impacting multiple schedulers
We are currently experiencing an issue affecting Data Depot. Engineers are actively investigating, and we will provide an update as soon as more information is available. Schedulers have been paused on Negishi, Rowdy, Gautschi, Bell, Scholar, and Gil...
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Brief Data Depot disruption, community cluster scheduling paused and restored
RCAC experienced a disruption in service on the Data Depot storage system this evening, which required us to temporarily pause job scheduling on the community clusters. The issue has been resolved, schedulers have been resumed.
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Changes to Scratch Storage Policies
We are updating how we describe and manage scratch storage to keep our systems fast, reliable, and fair for everyone. Following good data practices makes scratch more performant and more useful for all users. By keeping master copies of important dat...
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Data Depot storage issue, cluster operations currently paused
We are investigating an issue with the Data Depot storage system that is impacting dependent services. Users may see failures connecting via Windows/Samba and jobs are affected because all clusters are currently paused while recovery work proceeds. O...
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Bell: Scheduling Temporarily Paused
Our engineers are looking into an issue with scratch storage on Bell. Job scheduling is temporarily paused and will resume as soon as things are back to normal.
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Scheduled Bell Maintenance – May 18
Bell will be undergoing planned maintenance and a minor operating system upgrade on Monday, May 18. This work will also affect the Bell scratch filesystem. Maintenance work will start around 8:00 AM and should end by 5:00 PM Monday, May 18. A reserv...
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Service Disruption to Bell, Geddes, Gilbreth, Negishi, Anvil, and GenAI Studio
We are currently experiencing an unexpected service outage affecting the following systems: Negishi, Geddes, GenAI Studio, Bell, Anvil, and Gilbreth. Our team is actively working to restore full functionality as quickly as possible. During this time,...
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Kernel Upgrade on Clusters Nodes
We are performing rolling reboots on all login and compute nodes for critical kernel upgrades. Nodes will reboot in stages, so resources remain available.
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All Clusters & Services Restored
At approximately 9:40pm EDT Monday, April 27th, 2026, a campus-wide power outage due to weather impacted all research computing clusters and storage systems. Power has been restored, and engineers are currently bringing systems back online in an orde...
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RCAC Maintenance Complete – All Systems Available
The ongoing RCAC maintenance originally scheduled to conclude at 5:00 PM today (Thursday, April 23) has been extended. The new expected completion time is 9:00 PM tonight, Thursday, April 23. All RCAC systems and Research Network services will remain...
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Data Depot is up, but some operations may be slower than normal while recovery work continues
Data Depot is currently experiencing degraded performance. Service is available, but background recovery processes are still running and may slow access to Depot. Our team is continuing to monitor the system and work toward full restoration.
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Data Depot is currently unavailable
We are currently experiencing an unplanned outage affecting Data Depot. Engineers are actively working to restore service, but there is no ETA to share yet. We will provide updates as soon as more information is available.