Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
OpenMPI 4 and NVHPC MPI Compatibility Issues with SLURM HWLOC Ascend, Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

A pure MPI application using mpirun or mpiexec with more ranks than the number of NUMA nodes may encounter an error similar to the following:...

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1 year 6 months ago 1 year 3 months ago
Negative Balance Emails client portal Resolved

Negative balance emails continue to be sent once an application is submitted.

To confirm whether or not you have truly submitted an application for additional resources and that you can...

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7 years 5 months ago 7 years 1 month ago
Emergency maintenance in OSC’s data center Feb 10 2022 Outage, Owens, Pitzer Resolved

OSC will shut down significant portions of the Owens and Pitzer clusters for several hours this afternoon (Thursday, Feb....

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4 years 8 months ago 4 years 8 months ago
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 4 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 4 months ago
MVAPICH 3.0 hang due to PMI mismatch with Slurm Software Resolved
(workaround)

Applications such as Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS, and NWChem experienced hangs with MVAPICH 3.0 due to a PMI mismatch. MVAPICH 3.0 was built with PMI-1, while newer Slurm versions on RHEL 9...

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1 year 1 day ago 4 months 4 weeks 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
Schrodinger license check in issue Licensing Resolved

Schrödinger is an application that uses a FlexNet license server. To run a job, the application needs to check out licenses from the server and check it back in once the job is completed. However...

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2 years 3 months ago 1 year 10 months ago

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