• ​​​​​​Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
HCOLL-related failures in OpenMPI applications Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Several applications using OpenMPI, including HDF5, Boost, Rmpi, ORCA, and CP2K, may fail with errors such as

mca_coll_hcoll_module_enable() coll_hcol: mca_coll_hcoll_save_coll_handlers...
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1 year 11 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
Stale File Handles on GPFS clients filesystem Resolved

OSC is experiencing some problems with the Project and Scratch filesystems that are resulting in some jobs seeing "stale file handles". We are investigating the problem and will provide updates as...

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7 years 9 months ago 7 years 8 months ago
Extra messages during job startup and ending on Owens and Pitzer Batch, Owens, Pitzer Resolved

All jobs on Owens and Pitzer that started or ended after 13:14 Monday, March 11 would see the following extra messages at the beginning and end of the job:

pmlogger: cannot open log "/...
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7 years 6 months ago 7 years 6 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
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
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 3 weeks ago 11 months 2 weeks 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
MOE license server down Licensing Resolved

The MOE license server is experiencing an unknown issue and potentially down.  We are working to resolve the issue.

2 years 12 months ago 2 years 12 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 6 months ago 4 years 9 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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4 months 4 days ago 3 months 4 weeks ago

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