Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
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
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
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 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
Emergency InfiniBand Shutdown (All systems) Network Resolved

We have returned to service. It appears that we have resolved the networking issues enough to allow jobs to run safely. We will continue working with our vendors to fix any remaining hardware...

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12 years 2 months ago 12 years 2 months 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
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
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
/fs/ess and OnDemand not accessible filesystem, OnDemand Resolved

/fs/ess and OnDemand are not accessible now. We are working on this.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Please contact OSC Help if you have any questions. 

5 years 2 months ago 5 years 2 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. ...
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10 years 3 months ago 9 years 3 weeks ago

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