Known issues

Unresolved known issues

Known issue with an Unresolved Resolution state is an active problem under investigation; a temporary workaround may be available.

Resolved known issues

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A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
Estimated charging for serial jobs on Oakley is incorrect Batch Resolved

Currently, the estimated RU charge reported at the end of a job shows an incorrect value for serial jobs on Oakley of the entire node. Jobs are being charged the correct amount in the official...

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11 years 1 week ago 8 years 4 months ago
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
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
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
GPFS filesystem Problem on Oct 24 2019 filesystem Resolved

Updated on 4:45 PM Oct 24, 2019

The issue is fixed. GPFS filesystems and OnDemand are back. 

Original Post

We are having issues with GPFS filesystem...

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6 years 11 months ago 6 years 11 months ago
Unavailability of intel channel among the conda channel list: Software Resolved

If you are getting an error: 

UnavailableInvalidChannel: HTTP 403 FORBIDDEN for channel intel <...

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2 years 1 month ago 2 years 1 month ago
STAR-CCM+ OpenMPI Job Failed due to Out-of-Memory Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

After the scheduled downtime on May 12, 2026, STAR-CCM+ has been encountering out-of-memory errors when running OpenMPI jobs. A message similar to the following...

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4 months 2 weeks ago 3 months 3 weeks 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 1 week 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
Problems with GPFS filesystem, and OnDemand is not working filesystem Resolved

Updates on 12:00pm June 10:

The issue is fixed. All impacted services return to production.

We apologize for the inconvience. If you have any questions, please...

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5 years 4 months ago 5 years 4 months ago

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