Known Issues

OSU is having ongoing periodic problems with Microsoft (their mail hosting provider) severely delaying outbound email. There is no solution being offered and no timeline for getting it resolved.... Read more

We are having rolling reboots of Owens cluster including login and compute nodes, starting from October 10, 2019, to update Kernel and root filesystem. The rolling reboots won't affect any running... Read more

Gaussian-4 (G4) theory calculations in Gaussian 16 Rev. B.01 can produce erratic results.  A workaround is to use Gaussian 16 Rev. A.03 or Rev. C.01, e.g.: 

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On Pitzer both LAMMPS 22Aug18 and 5Jun19 gpu jobs with ppn=40 hang immediately after lammps begins execution.  A workaround is to use ppn=39.

If you fail to hit the reCAPTCHA and try to submit the form, you will receive an error regarding the reCAPTCHA.

If you hit the reCAPTCHA and re-submit, the error will remain.

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If you save a report at the HPC Job Activity Table, you must exit out of your web browser in order to have the report saved correctly and be able to switch in between the reports.

There is... Read more

NCBI blocks any connection from computing nodes because they are behind firewalls. Thus OSC users cannot use SRA tools to download data "on-the-fly" at runtime on computing nodes, e.g. 'fastq-dump... Read more

Password changes are taking longer than usual to process through the system. In some test cases up to 17 minutes.

We are working on resolving this issue.

A new installation of intelmpi with 2019.3 version has a performance issue on Ruby. We are actively investigating this issue. If you have any questions, please contact... Read more

After you log into the client portal (my.osc.edu), the storage usage of each project under 'Project Summaries' reported in the Project Dashboard is not correct. Please click 'Usage Details'... Read more