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.

Ascend desktop including lightweight is not working

Resolution: 
Resolved

Update: this is fixed. 

Original Post:

Ascend Desktop, including the lightweight is not working. We are investigating the problem and will provide an update as soon as possible.