Slowness on /scratch Filesystem

We are actively investigating intermittent slowness on the shared /fs/scratch filesystem.

Rolling reboots across all OSC clusters beginning 11/05/2026

OSC systems staff will execute a rolling reboot across all active compute clusters (Pitzer, Ascend, and Cardinal) beginning Thursday, November 05.

Abaqus license contention

Category: 
Batch
Licensing
Resolution: 
Resolved

We have noticed some abaqus jobs end up in BatchHold. Once the job is in BatchHold, it will never start. This is because of sharing the abaqus licenses between Oakley and Owens. We have opened a support request with the job scheduler vendor.