Bell
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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, 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, 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 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 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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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...