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
LS-DYNA License problems on all clusters Software Resolved

We are experiencing problems with the LS-DYNA license server. We will resume working on restoring access to this software on October 24th, 2018.

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It has been fixed and working...

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7 years 11 months ago 7 years 11 months ago
Possible performance degradation after August 9th's downtime filesystem Resolved

Updates on May 20 2023:

verbsRDMA is enabled on Pitzer. 

Updates on Dec 14 2022:

verbsRDMA is enabled on Owens during December 13 downtime...

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4 years 2 months ago 3 years 4 months ago
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
GPFS problems on Owens filesystem Resolved

Owens is experiencing a disruption of GPFS availability. At about 4:17PM today (January 6th), OSC monitoring noticed a problem with mounts of Project on the Owens supercomputer. Jobs may have been...

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6 years 9 months ago 6 years 9 months ago
Security Vulnerability for GPFS filesystem Resolved

Update: The fix was deployed during May 19 Downtime. 

Clients are not able to use mm* commands to manipulate GPFS ACLs on most OSC systems, due to a security vulnerability...

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6 years 5 months ago 6 years 4 months 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...

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13 years 1 month ago 10 years 2 months ago
Rolling reboots across all OSC clusters beginning 09/16/2026 Resolved
  • ​​​​​​Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026

  • Affected Systems: All...

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1 month 1 hour ago 2 weeks 2 days ago
Handling full-node MPI warnings with MVAPICH 3.0 Ascend, Cardinal, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

When running a full-node MPI job with MVAPICH 3.0 , you may encounter the following warning message:

[][mvp_generate_implicit_cpu_mapping] WARNING: You appear to be...
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1 year 11 months ago 8 months 1 week 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

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