Bell
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BoilerKey Transition to Purdue Login
Overnight on June 26-27th (Monday-Tuesday), all Purdue systems which use BoilerKey, including RCAC clusters and other systems, will switch to the new Purdue Login. For more information about this change, please see the following documentation: https:...
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The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 7:50pm EDT. File access operations (e.g. ls) may appear hanging. Logins to the Open OnDemand gateway (gateway.bell.rcac.purdue.edu) may appear sluggish or hanging as well....
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The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 12:55pm EST. File access operations (e.g. ls) may appear hanging. Logins to the Open OnDemand gateway ( gateway.bell.rcac.purdue.edu) may appear sluggish or hanging as wel...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its Lustre scratch filesystem around 12:30pm EST. 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 w...
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Scheduling paused on multiple clusters
The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Scholar clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 9:50am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while...
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The Bell Gateway began experiencing issues following the Oct 4-6th Bell Maintenance. In particular, gateway applications have been observed to fail upon attempting to connect to the application after launching the job. Our engineers are investigating...
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The Bell cluster will be unavailable for use October 4, 2022 8:00am - October 5, 2022 11:59pm EDT while we perform scheduled maintenance to expand Bell's scratch storage capabilities and make upgrades to Bell's AMD GPU drivers and other system soft...
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The Bell cluster continues to experience issues with Hardware. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issues and are working with vendors to schedule and perform repairs as quickly as possible. Job scheduling continues, but you may experience longer...
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A section of the Bell cluster compute nodes began experiencing issues with power feed and cooling around 2:30pm EDT. Engineers have powered down affected nodes and are working to identify a fix. Some jobs may have ended up terminated or requeued. Jo...
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MATH data center cooling outage
The Math building data center began experience issues with its cooling system around 1:40pm EDT. To minimize thermal load on the cooling infrastructure, job scheduling has been paused and all idle compute nodes on Anvil, Bell, Geddes, Gilbreth, and...
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Bell scratch purging policy change
As announced during the recent Bell outage, some temporary austerity measures need to be implemented to prevent the scratch file system from filling up and causing more outages. Hardware to expand the scratch file system has been on order for some ti...
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Bell Scratch Degraded Storage (Returned to Service)
Bell Scratch is near capacity and performance is degraded. As of this morning, Bell Scratch was 94% full. This afternoon we paused scheduling as scratch was not responding consistently. We have more drives on order, but with global supply chain issue...
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Unscheduled campus power outage
Several Research Computing resources became affected by a campus power outage around 7:00pm EDT. Multiple login and compute nodes may have powered down, leading to jobs fail and/or requeue with a NODE_FAIL or similar status. Engineers are currently d...
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The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 9:00pm EDT on Saturday, April 9th, 2022. Access to files in scratch may appear severely delayed or frozen. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to...
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Unscheduled Data Depot Slowdown on Community Clusters
As of 9:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience slowness while trying to access Data Depot (including loading modules, starting applications or reading data) . The symptoms appear on both login and compute nodes. System engineers are act...
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Unscheduled Math Data Center Cooling Outage
The Math building data center began experience issues with its cooling system around 11:40am EDT. As one of manifestations, users may experience issues while logging in to the Anvil, Bell, Gilbreth, and Halstead clusters. To minimize thermal load on...
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Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance
The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Weber, and Workbench clusters) will be unavailable March 15, 2022 4:00pm - March 16, 2022 12:00pm EDT during Whole-Floor Data Depo...
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Unscheduled Math data center cooling outage
The Math building data center began experience issues with its cooling system around 11:40am EST. As one of manifestations, users may experience issues while logging in to the Anvil, Bell, Gilbreth, Halstead, Workbench, and Data Depot clusters. To m...
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As of 8:00pm EST on Friday, February 11th, 2022 the Data Depot filesystem outage has been resolved and scheduling has been resumed on all clusters. The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Scholar, Workbench, and Data Depot cluster began experiencing i...