Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Error when downloading SRA data on computing nodes Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

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...

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7 years 2 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
Ondemand error when terminating interactive app OnDemand Resolved
(workaround)

When trying to delete an interactive session through OnDemand, you may receive an error page about 'No such file'. This can be disregarded. Simply navigate back to the interactive sessions page...

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5 years 10 months ago 4 years 5 months ago
OpenMPI-HPCX 4.1.x hangs on writing files on a shared file system Software Resolved
(workaround)

Your job utilizing openmpi/4.1.x-hpcx (or 4.1.x on Ascend) might hang while writing files on a shared file system. This issue is caused by a ...

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1 year 5 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
VASP job with Out-of-Memory crashes compute node(s) Batch, Owens, Software Resolved
(workaround)

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9 years 5 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
starccm/15.02.007 with intelmpi after Mar 22, 2022 Resolved
(workaround)

STAR-CCM+ 15.02.007 and 15.02.007-mixed with intelMPI would fail on multiple node jobs after the downtime on Mar 22, 2022. Please use openmpi instead. You can find more...

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4 years 6 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
Emergency InfiniBand Shutdown (All systems) Network Resolved

We have returned to service. It appears that we have resolved the networking issues enough to allow jobs to run safely. We will continue working with our vendors to fix any remaining hardware...

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12 years 2 months ago 12 years 2 months ago
Issue when loading multiple Fluent or ANSYS modules simultaneously Software Resolved

Due to the way our Fluent and ANSYS modules are configured, simultaneously loading multiple of either module will cause a cryptic error.  The most common case of this happening is when multiple of...

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12 years 6 days ago 10 years 11 months ago
Client Portal: Intermittent Outages Account Management, Account/Shell, Login Problems, Outage Resolved

We are experiencing infrastructure issue on the servers that host the Client Portal (my.osc.edu).

Outages are intermittent.

We apologize for the...

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7 years 8 months ago 7 years 3 months ago
Storage Problems - GPFS services (Project / Scratch) filesystem Resolved

Updates at 15:52 March 11, 2020:

The issue with the Project file system that causes deletes of file system snapshots to fail has now been resolved. OSC Project file system...

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6 years 7 months ago 6 years 7 months ago
starccm does not use vis node GPU GPU, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Issue:

When trying to run starccm on a vis node in order to use GPU for visualization (not for GPU calculation), the typical way to do this would be to load the...

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7 months 2 weeks ago 7 months 2 weeks ago

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