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
OpenMPI job stopped at 'There are not enough slots available in the system to satisfy the slots' Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved

Users would encounter a MPI job failed with openmpi/3.1.0-hpcx on Owens and Pitzer. The job would stop with the error  like "There are not enough slots available in the system to...

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6 years 1 month ago 6 years 1 week ago
ArcGIS License problems Software Resolved

We are experiencing problems with the ArcGIS license server. We will resume working on restoring access to this software on October 24th, 2018.

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It is fixed and running...

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7 years 10 months ago 7 years 10 months 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 5 days ago 1 month 5 days ago
Ansys OMP: System error #22: Invalid argument Cardinal Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter the following error while running Ansys on Cardinal:

OMP: Error #100: Fatal system error detected.
OMP: System error #22: Invalid argument
forrtl: error (76): Abort...
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1 year 7 months ago 1 year 3 months ago
pdsh -j broken on Oakley Batch, system software Resolved

pdsh -j is broken on Oakley.  It was broken by updates during the September downtime.  We are currently working on resolving the issue.

Users who require...

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10 years 9 months ago 8 years 3 months ago
ondemand gpu request error Nov 2021 Batch, OnDemand, Pitzer Resolved

When requesting an interactive session in ondemand and requesting gpu resources, users may see an error similar similar to  "sbatch: error: Invalid generic resource (gres) specification"

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4 years 9 months ago 4 years 9 months ago
HPC Job Activity Table: Save Report client portal Resolved

If you save a report at the HPC Job Activity Table, you must exit out of your web browser in order to have the report saved correctly and be able to switch in between the reports.

There is...

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7 years 1 month ago 6 years 5 months ago
MPI fails with UCX 1.18 Software Resolved
(workaround)

After the downtime on August 19, 2025, users may encounter UCX errors such as:

UCX ERROR no active messages transport to <no debug data>: self/memory -...
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1 year 2 weeks ago 11 months 4 days ago
Brief disruption of GPFS on 8/28/2013 filesystem Resolved

On the morning August 28th, 2013 we will briefly disrupt the GPFS filesystem to reboot servers. This is necessary to upgrade the GPFS system. The in-place upgrade should only briefly interrupt...

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13 years 1 week ago 13 years 1 week ago
Balance could be non-existent client portal Resolved

Balances may be none existent in my.osc.edu and OSCusage command. Balances are being properly accounted for in the background.

The bug has been identified and a patch will be released ASAP...

6 years 9 months ago 6 years 8 months ago

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