Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
Apptainer sandbox fails on GPFS due to stale NFS file handles Software Resolved

Users may encounter errors when attempting to run a sandbox on GPFS-mounted directories such as /fs/scratch or /fs/ess. The error...

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1 year 2 months ago 10 months 3 weeks ago
Project space giving errors "No space left on device" filesystem Resolved

11/01/2016 11:52AM Update: This issue has been fixed. 

We have become aware of a problem with the Project storage space that gives errors "No space left on device". The...

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9 years 11 months ago 9 years 11 months ago
Nsight GPU profiler not working due to DCGM conflict GPU, Infrastructure Resolved

UPDATE (Mar 15, 2023)

After the downtime on Mar. 14, 2023, OSC enabled a new Slurm option --gres=nsight. DCGM will be disabled on the nodes for the...

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3 years 7 months ago 4 months 3 weeks ago
Brief disruption to external network, 2013/12/29 Connectivity Resolved

Between 5:00AM and 9:00AM EDT on Sunday,...

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12 years 9 months ago 12 years 9 months ago
Rolling reboot of Owens cluster, starting from Monday, April 16, 2018 Owens Resolved

12:00 PM 5/7/2018 Update:

The rolling reboot of Owens has been completed. 

Posted on April 11, 2018, at 3:45...

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8 years 6 months ago 8 years 5 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
Replacement of Owens Ethernet switches from Dec 14, 2018 Network, Owens Resolved

Updated on Jan 16, 2019, at 09:20 AM:

The replacement is done except for the three switches including the login nodes of Owens. We posted another notice for more...

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8 years 4 weeks ago 7 years 8 months ago
MVAPICH2 build of CP2K 6.1 Pitzer Resolved

We have found some types of CP2K jobs would fail or have poor performance using cp2k.popt and cp2k.psmp from MVAPICH2 build (gnu/4.8.5 mvapich2/2.3). This version will be removed on December 15th...

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5 years 10 months ago 5 years 7 months ago
Ascend desktop including lightweight is not working Resolved

Update: this is fixed. 

Original Post:

Ascend Desktop, including...

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1 year 6 months ago 1 year 6 months ago
Problems with Project Space (/nfs/gpfs) filesystem Resolved

(9/8/15 14:21 Eastern) Project space appears to be back to normal operation. We are running some tests to verify that the problem is fully resolved.


As of early afternoon, Sept. 8,...

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11 years 1 month ago 11 years 1 month ago

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