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
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...

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7 years 2 weeks ago 7 years 2 weeks ago
Rolling reboot of compute and login nodes of all clusters, starting from Wednesday morning, March 22, 2017 login, Owens, Ruby Resolved

4:56PM 3/28/2017 Update: The rolling reboots of all systems are completed. 

All compute nodes and login nodes of Owens, Oakley, and Ruby clusters will need to be rebooted...

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9 years 7 months ago 9 years 6 months 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...

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2 years 11 months ago 2 years 11 months ago
Account changes temporarily suspended Account Management Resolved

We are still experiencing some account problems related to Thursday's issue. As a result, we have taken my.osc.edu offline and cannot process email changes or password resets, either via self-...

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12 years 4 months ago 12 years 4 months 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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4 months 3 weeks ago 3 months 3 weeks ago
my.osc.edu inaccessible client portal Resolved

OSC client portal is having intermittent issues and may be inaccessible.

There is ongoing work being done to resolve this problem.

Resolution:...

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6 years 1 month ago 6 years 1 month ago
Rolling reboots of all three clusters, starting from Tuesday, September 4, 2018 Batch, Owens, Ruby Resolved

10:14 AM 09/17/2018...

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8 years 1 month ago 8 years 1 month 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 5 months ago
MPI-IO issues on home directories with Intel MPI 2019.3 Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Certain MPI-IO operations with intelmpi/2019.3 may crash, fail or proceed with errors on the home directory. We do not expect the same issue on our GPFS file system, such as the...

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1 year 5 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
Problems with MVAPICH2 Owens, Ruby, Software Resolved

Some MVAPICH2 MPI installations on Oakley, Ruby, and Owens, such as the default module mvapich2/2.2 as well as mvapich2/2.1, appear to have a bug that is triggered by certain programs.  The...

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10 years 8 months ago 4 years 5 months ago

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