Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolution Description Posted Updated
Intel oneAPI MPI 2021.10.0 Fails with UCX 1.18 Software Unresolved

After the downtime on August 19, 2025, users may encounter UCX errors such as:

UCX ERROR no active messages transport to <no debug data>: self/memory -... Read more          
1 week 2 hours ago 1 week 2 hours ago
Python version mismatch in Jupyter + Spark instance Software Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter the following error message when running a Spark instance using a custom kernel in the Jupyter + Spark app:

25/04/25 10:49:01 WARN TaskSetManager:... Read more          
3 months 2 weeks ago 1 week 6 days ago
cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output containing MKL messages Ascend, Cardinal, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

On all clusters the cp2k executables from module cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output files due to many many repeating errors from MKL, e.g.:

... Read more          
2 weeks 6 days ago 2 weeks 1 day ago
MATLAB (server) missing functionality Software Resolved

You may encounter missing functionality on MATLAB (server) such as SIMULINK not being available. This is because MATLAB (server) is not yet feature complete. Please try to use MATLAB... Read more

2 weeks 2 days ago 2 weeks 2 days ago
Some MKL environment variables have incorrect paths Ascend, Cardinal, Pitzer, Software Resolved

MKL module files define some helper environment variables with incorrect paths.  This can yield link time errors.  All three clusters are affected.  We are working to correct the module... Read more

2 months 2 weeks ago 2 weeks 2 days ago
Poor performance with hybrid MPI+OpenMPI jobs and more than 4 MPI Tasks on multiple nodes Software Resolved
(workaround)

RELION versions prior to 5 may exhibit suboptimal performance in hybrid MPI+OpenMP jobs when the number of MPI tasks exceeds four across multiple nodes.

Workaround... Read more

2 weeks 6 days ago 2 weeks 6 days ago
CP package hang with MVAPICH3 in Quantum-Espresso Software Resolved

While using MVAPICH3 builds of Quantum ESPRESSO (QE), users may encounter hangs when running the CP package, which can lead to job timeouts. We recommend switching to the OpenMPI build of... Read more

2 months 5 days ago 3 weeks 22 hours ago
Docker container runtime error on desktop due to DBUS session Software Resolved
(workaround)

When running a container using the podman or docker command on a desktop system, you may encounter an error like the following:

Error: OCI... Read more          
1 month 23 hours ago 1 month 23 hours ago
Podman storage error due to outdated configuration file Software Resolved
(workaround)

If you experience a storage error such as:

 write /var/tmp/storage388772891/1: no space left on device.

you may have an outdated ~/.... Read more

1 month 1 day ago 1 month 1 day ago
Apptainer sandbox fails on GPFS due to stale NFS file handles Software Resolved
(workaround)

Users may encounter errors when attempting to run a sandbox on GPFS-mounted directories such as /fs/scratch or /fs/ess. The error... Read more

1 month 1 day ago 1 month 1 day ago

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