Bell Cluster Open OnDemand Maintenance (February 3)
Link to update at February 3, 2026 2:39pm EST UPDATE:
As of 02:30pm, we have completed maintenance and have returned the Bell Open Ondemand back to normal service. Now we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new designed dashboard for Open OnDemand on Bell! This major upgrade is designed with user-friendly in mind, bringing an intuitive interface and a host of powerful new features to enhance your experience on Bell.
What’s New?
- CPU/GPU Usage: Monitor your group usages and remaining available cores on Bell.
- Disk Usage: Monitor your storage utilization across Bell’s file systems.
- Job Queue: View and manage your running and queued jobs on Bell.
- News Feed: Stay updated with the latest Bell news, outages and announcements.
- Partition Status: Monitor the current state of partitions/queues on Bell.
- My Jobs Page: Re-designed page to show detailed job information for your jobs and jobs in your group(s) as well as job management.
- Performance Metrics Page: Analyze your job performance and resource utilization patterns over time.
Get Started Today
Access the new dashboard by visiting https://gateway.bell.rcac.purdue.edu. We’ve prepared a comprehensive guide (see “New Features” page in the new dashboard) to help you navigate and make the most out of the new features.
Have questions? Need assistance? Require more features? Our support team is here to help! Contact us through RCAC Help Desk.
We’d love to hear your feedback as you explore the new gateway. Your input is invaluable in shaping the future of our HPC services.
Thank you for being part of this journey. Let’s push the boundaries of discovery together!
Link to original posting ORIGINAL:
The Open Ondemand service for Bell will be unavailable from Tuesday, February 3 at 8:00am EDT, 2026 to Tuesday, February 3 at 5:00pm EDT, 2026. During the maintenance, RCAC team will perform a reconfiguration to the Open Ondemand dashboard for Bell which include a brand new design of the dashboard with new features listed below.
What’s New on the dashboard?
- CPU/GPU Usage: Monitor your group usages and remaining available cores on Bell.
- Disk Usage: Monitor your storage utilization across Bell’s file systems.
- Job Queue: View and manage your running and queued jobs on Bell.
- News Feed: Stay updated with the latest Bell news, outages and announcements.
- Partition Status: Monitor the current state of partitions/queues on Bell.
- My Jobs Page: Re-designed page to show detailed job information for your jobs and jobs in your group(s) as well as job management.
- Performance Metrics Page: Analyze your job performance and resource utilization patterns over time.
What will impact you?
- All Slurm jobs on Bell (including jobs that have already submitted through Open Ondemand before this maintenance) will continue and NOT be impacted.
- All functions related to Open Ondemand including login will be unavailable during the maintenance.
Bell Open Ondemand service will return to full production by Tuesday, February 3 at 5:00pm EDT, 2026.
Please submit a ticket through RCAC Help Desk rcac-help@purdue.edu if you have any questions or suggestions.