• ​​​​​​Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026

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
Core label on OnDemand app is incorrect OnDemand Resolved

The core label on the OnDemand app incorrectly displays as '1', regardless of the requested number of cores for a job. While this label is incorrect, the job is still allocated the correct number...

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1 year 8 months ago 1 year 7 months ago
OnDemand service is not available OnDemand Resolved

Update:

OnDemand service is available again.

Original post:

OnDemand service is not available and won't let users log in. We are working to fix it as soon as we can....

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7 years 8 months ago 7 years 8 months ago
Very little free space for metadata on the scratch storage /fs/scratch filesystem Resolved

Updated 15:30 October 19:

The issue of little space for metadata on scratch storage is resolved. If you have any questions, please contact...

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4 years 11 months ago 4 years 11 months ago
Submit filter bug after downtime Batch Resolved

A change was made to a part of our batch software during the downtime that should have only affected users who are a part of multiple projects. We have found that there is a bug in the changes...

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10 years 7 months ago 10 years 7 months ago
cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output containing MKL messages Ascend, Cardinal, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

On all clusters the cp2k executables from module cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output files due to many many repeating errors from MKL, e.g.:

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1 year 1 month ago 11 months 2 weeks ago
6/4/13 Scheduled Downtime Outage Resolved

HPC systems are currently offline for scheduled maintenance. See osc.edu/n for more information.

13 years 3 months ago 13 years 3 months ago
PyTorch jobs timeout and hanging GPU Resolved

We have observed that many PyTorch users frequently encounter random timeouts, which result in the termination of their jobs but leave the process running on the node....

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3 years 2 months ago 2 years 8 months ago
Rolling reboot of Owens cluster, starting from 9AM September 11, 2017 Batch, Owens Resolved

Updates on 12:20PM September 25, 2017: 

The rolling reboot of Owens is completed. 

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9 years 1 week ago 8 years 11 months ago
Backup Issues Backups Resolved

Updates on 04/17:

OSC has conducted thorough validations to ensure the integrity of our backup data for user home directories and the /fs/ess filesystem. 

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2 years 5 months ago 2 years 5 months ago
abaqus: partial node jobs Software Resolved

If you run a parallel (or even serial!) job, but not using all the cpus...

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8 years 5 months ago 8 years 3 months ago

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