Rolling reboots across all OSC clusters beginning 09/16/2026

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

Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
All HPC systems are available Login Problems, Operations, Outage Resolved

8/24/16 3:57PM: All HPC systems are availalbe including:

  • Oakley cluster for general access
  • Ruby cluster for restricted access
  • Owens cluster for...
Read more 		10 years 4 weeks ago 10 years 3 weeks ago
Parallel job with IntelMPI hangs Software Resolved

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Read more 		2 years 5 months ago 2 years 1 month 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...

Read more 		13 years 3 weeks ago 13 years 3 weeks ago
starccm outage Feb 21, 2021 Licensing, Outage, Owens, Software Resolved

Updated on Feb 25: 

StarCCM license outage is restored.

Original post:

OSC's starccm software license will expire at 12 a.m., Sunday, Feb...

Read more 		5 years 6 months ago 5 years 6 months ago
Rolling reboot of login nodes of clusters at 7:00AM Dec 19, 2017 login Resolved

We will have rolling reboot of login nodes of clusters at 7:00AM Dec 19, 2017 for GPFS version upgrade. It is supposed to be completed in a short period of time. f you encounter any login issues,...

Read more 		8 years 9 months ago 8 years 9 months ago
Multiple definition error Software Resolved
(workaround)

GNU compiler versions 10+ may have C compiler errors like

/.libs/libmca_mtl_psm.a(mtl_psm_component.o): multiple definition of `mca_mtl_psm_component'

This is a ...

Read more 		1 year 4 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
Abaqus Service Disruption Expected Software Resolved

Update 12/3/14: 

OSC has acquired its new ABAQUS license with new license terms.  Use is now limited by both institution and for use in educational, institutional, instructional...

Read more 		11 years 10 months ago 11 years 9 months ago
Security vulnerabilities on ARM Forge versions prior to 22.0.x Software Resolved
(workaround)

ARM identified security vulnerabilities on ARM Forge versions prior to 22.0.x as follow:

  • Security update #1: A locally exploitable code-injection vulnerability was identified in...
Read more 		4 years 2 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
Gaussian g16b01 G4 problem Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Gaussian-4 (G4) theory calculations in Gaussian 16 Rev. B.01 can produce erratic results.  A workaround is to use Gaussian 16 Rev. A.03 or Rev. C.01, e.g.: 

module load gaussian/...
Read more 		7 years 7 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
quota exceeded error when using chgrp in /fs/ess directories filesystem Resolved

Users may receive an error when using the chgrp command on data in /fs/ess/ locations.

$ chgrp -v PEX1234 my-file.txt
chgrp: changing group of 'my-file.txt': Disk quota exceeded
failed...
Read more 		3 years 7 months ago 3 years 6 months ago

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