Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
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 3 months ago 1 year 3 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 7 months ago 4 years 4 months ago
Apptainer container builds fail on compute nodes due to /tmp namespace behavior Software Resolved
(workaround)

Building Apptainer containers on compute nodes may fail during apt update or other package operations...

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8 months 6 days ago 7 months 1 day ago
Nvidia drivers on Oakley GPU Resolved

We upgraded the drivers for the Nvidia GPUs on all of our clusters during the downtime this week. Unfortunately, we are noticing some subtle problems with the GPUs on Oakley. We will be rolling...

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9 years 11 months ago 8 years 3 months ago
MATLAB (legacy) r2024a fails to launch on OnDemand Desktop Software Resolved
(workaround)

As of the downtime on 05/12/26 MATLAB (legacy) has stopped working when users try to open .m files in the GUI application for version r2024a. At the time we suggested to please use the...

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3 months 4 weeks ago 3 months 3 weeks ago
MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE is not supported with OpenMPI-HPCX 4.x Owens, Software Resolved

A threading code with MPI where MPI_Init_thread uses MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE will fail because UCX from HPCX package is built without enabling multi-threading. UCX is the...

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3 years 6 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
Brief disruption to external network, 2013/11/27 Connectivity Resolved

This maintenence was cancelled, to be rescheduled at some undetermined point in the future.

Between 12:01AM and 2:00AM Eastern on Wednesday, November 27th 2013, OARnet will be...

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12 years 10 months ago 12 years 9 months ago
Maintenance outage on the cluster export services Maintenance, OnDemand, Ruby Resolved

Update on 14 April 2020, 0903:

Work is completed.

Original message:

There will be maintenance on cluster export services on Tuesday, April...

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6 years 5 months ago 6 years 5 months ago
Occasional failures in file permissions filesystem Resolved

Users may experience occasional failures in file permissions with our filesystem. We've opened a case with the vendor for further investigations. If you get 'permission denied' message when you...

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8 years 5 months ago 4 years 9 months ago
Rolling reboots on all HPC systems starting Oct 31 2024 Owens, Pitzer Resolved

Updates on Nov 13 2024:

Pitzer is completed. 

Updates...

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1 year 10 months ago 1 year 9 months ago

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