Partial Owens nodes will be unavailable from July 29, 2024, to August 6, 2024, due to power changes in preparation for the Cardinal installation. This outage won't affect any running batch jobs,...

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...

There is a scheduled outage for XDMOD tool (xdmod.osc.edu) between 9AM-4PM June 2 2021 for upgrading to 9.5.0. During the outage XDMOD will be in maintain mode and not accessible by OSC users. ...

my.osc.edu has not been fully restored after yesterday's downtime. You can change your password, but you will not be able to use the new password on my.osc.edu. The updated password will work to...

You may encounter the following warning message when running a Spark instance using the default PySpark kernel in a Jupyter + Spark application:

WARN SparkSession: Using an...

If you experience a storage error such as:

 write /var/tmp/storage388772891/1: no space left on device.

you may have an outdated ~/....

Update 12/3/14: 

OSC has acquired its new ABAQUS license with new license terms.  Use is now limited by both institution and for use in educational, institutional, instructional...

The default CPU binding for ORCA jobs can fail sporadically.  The failure is almost immediate and produces a cryptic error message, e.g.:

...

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.: 

module load gaussian/...

Updates on March 12, 2026: 

This is fixed with OnDemand 4.1.4. 

Original post: 

We are aware of an...