OSC OnDemand and cluster login nodes are currently experiencing service degradation and connection issues.

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

A known issue with a Resolved (workaround) Resolution state is an ongoing problem; a permanent workaround is available which may include using different software or hardware.

A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Rolling reboots across all OSC clusters beginning 09/16/2026 Resolved
  • ​​​​​​Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026

  • Affected Systems: All...

Read more
3 weeks 4 days ago 1 week 4 days ago
BWA 0.7.17 vulnerability Cardinal Resolved
(workaround)

Cardinal hosted a version of bwa that had an unpatched vulnerability, 0.7.17. 

This version has been removed from Cardinal in favor of 0.7.18

1 year 7 months ago 1 year 4 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...

Read more
7 years 8 months ago 7 years 3 months ago
Grafana is not available since Dec 14 Downtime Resolved

Grafana (grafana.osc.edu) is not available since Dec 14 Downtime. We will fix it soon.

If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help. 

4 years 9 months ago 4 years 9 months ago
Some issues remain after downtime Login Problems, Operations, Outage Resolved

15 July 2016, 5:00PM update: some additional issues we are facing

  • We are experiencing periodic hangs of the GPFS client file system software used with the new storage environment. ...
Read more
10 years 3 months ago 9 years 3 weeks ago
Scratch filesystem Errors on October 1st, 2019 filesystem Resolved

Updated on 12:40 PM Oct 1st, 2019: 

OSC had experienced an unexpected problem with the Scratch filesystem that gives errors "No space left on device" on all clusters since...

Read more
7 years 1 week ago 7 years 1 week ago
'quota' command does not work on GPFS system software Resolved

The 'quota' command does not provide any information about file quotas on the GPFS filesystem. Until we fix this issue, please look at your file system usage in the message printed when you log in...

Read more
13 years 1 month ago 10 years 2 months ago
Performance issues with MVAPICH2 on Cardinal Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

We have observed that several applications built with MVAPICH2, including Quantum ESPRESSO 7.4.1, HDF5, and OpenFOAM...

Read more
1 year 4 weeks ago 10 months 2 weeks ago
Rolling reboot of Ascend, Owens and Pitzer starting from Oct 25 2023 Owens, Pitzer Resolved

Update on Nov 8 2023:

Rolling reboots of all clusters are completed. 

Update on Nov 3 2023:

Rolling reboots of Ascend and Pitzer clusters...

Read more
2 years 11 months ago 2 years 11 months ago
DOWNTIME EXTENDED UNTIL MORNING OF 12/13/17 Resolved

We have extended the 12/12/2017 downtime until 7AM on 12/13/17 to complete filesystem maintenance that has taken longer than expected.

8 years 10 months ago 8 years 10 months ago

Pages