OSC systems staff will execute a rolling reboot across all active compute clusters (Pitzer, Ascend, and Cardinal) beginning Wednesday, September 16.

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 Resolution Description Posted Updatedsort ascending
Rolling reboots across all OSC clusters beginning 09/16/2026 Unresolved
  • ​​​​​​Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026

  • Affected Systems: All...

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1 week 4 hours ago 6 hours 24 min ago
Client Portal Service Interruption Resolved

We are currently experiencing an outage affecting access to the myOSC client portal (my.osc.edu). Users attempting to access the site may encounter error messages. We apologize for the...

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6 hours 58 min ago 6 hours 31 min ago
Emergency Maintenance: Research Data Storage Scratch Purge filesystem Resolved
  • Status: Scheduled

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3 weeks 5 days ago 2 weeks 6 days ago
Temporary Login Node Instability on Ascend and Cardinal Ascend, Cardinal Unresolved

We are currently experiencing temporary instability on the Ascend and Cardinal login nodes, which may result in slow response times or unexpected session disconnects. Our team is actively...

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3 months 3 weeks ago 3 weeks 6 days ago
NCCL 2.29 Performance Regression on Ascend and Pitzer Clusters Ascend, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

We have identified a potential performance regression in point-to-point communication when using NCCL version 2.29 on the Ascend and Pitzer clusters, which results...

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1 month 2 weeks ago 1 month 2 weeks ago
Rolling Reboot of all three HPC clusters beginning July 7 Resolved

A rolling reboot is scheduled to remediate a ptrace vulnerability and safely restore debugger functionality for all clusters, including Ascend, Cardinal, and Pitzer...

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2 months 3 weeks ago 2 months 2 hours ago
ptrace Disabled so Debuggers and Tracers Do Not Work Resolved

ptrace has been disabled globally across all OSC systems to mitigate a newly identified Linux kernel vulnerability. This disables most functionality of debuggers,...

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4 months 1 week ago 2 months 9 hours ago
Linaro MAP fails to launch in linaro-forge/23.0.4 Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Linaro MAP can fail to work in linaro-forge/23.0.4

We recommend to use linaro-forge/25.1.3 instead

2 months 2 days ago 2 months 2 days ago
cuMemHostRegister Fails with CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE on RHEL 9.6 Ascend, Cardinal, GPU, system software Resolved

After upgrading the operating system to RHEL 9.6 during the scheduled downtime on May 12, 2026,  applications utilizing UCX (...

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3 months 3 weeks ago 2 months 4 weeks ago
STAR-CCM+ OpenMPI Job Failed due to Out-of-Memory Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

After the scheduled downtime on May 12, 2026, STAR-CCM+ has been encountering out-of-memory errors when running OpenMPI jobs. A message similar to the following...

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3 months 3 weeks ago 3 months 7 hours ago

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