Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
Scratch filesystem Errors on October 1st, 2019 filesystem Resolved

Updated on 12:40 PM Oct 1st, 2019: 

OSC had experienced an unexpected problem with the Scratch filesystem that gives errors "No space left on device" on all clusters since...

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7 years 2 weeks ago 7 years 2 weeks ago
Systemic Problem on Cluster Computing service Operations Resolved

4:20PM 6/23/2017 Update: All HPC systems are back in production. This outage may cause failures of users' jobs. We'll update the community as more is known. 

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9 years 3 months ago 9 years 3 months ago
Rolling reboot of Ascend, Owens and Pitzer starting from Oct 25 2023 Owens, Pitzer Resolved

Update on Nov 8 2023:

Rolling reboots of all clusters are completed. 

Update on Nov 3 2023:

Rolling reboots of Ascend and Pitzer clusters...

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2 years 11 months ago 2 years 11 months ago
issue with OnDemand 6:09 - 8:39 pm Resolved

OnDemand, epi accounting queries, the Viper DB, the Medline DB, the Eweld DB,...

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12 years 2 months ago 12 years 2 months ago
STAR-CCM+ OpenMPI Job Failed due to Out-of-Memory Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

After the scheduled downtime on May 12, 2026, STAR-CCM+ has been encountering out-of-memory errors when running OpenMPI jobs. A message similar to the following...

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4 months 2 weeks ago 3 months 3 weeks ago
my.osc.edu inaccessible client portal Resolved

OSC client portal is having intermittent issues and may be inaccessible.

There is ongoing work being done to resolve this problem.

Resolution:...

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6 years 1 month ago 6 years 1 month ago
Major network switch outage Network Resolved

01:20 PM 11/14/2018 Update:

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7 years 11 months ago 7 years 11 months ago
BWA 0.7.17 vulnerability Cardinal Resolved
(workaround)

Cardinal hosted a version of bwa that had an unpatched vulnerability, 0.7.17. 

This version has been removed from Cardinal in favor of 0.7.18

1 year 7 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
Pitzer Xfce Desktop through OnDemand is not working OnDemand Resolved

Pitzer Xfce Desktop through OnDemand is not working. Please choose 'Mate' desktop environment instead. We are working to fix this issue now and apologize for any inconvenience. Please contact ...

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7 years 8 months ago 7 years 8 months ago
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 5 months ago 1 year 5 months ago

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