Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending 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 2 months ago 6 years 1 month 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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2 months 2 weeks ago 2 months 2 weeks ago
Critical change about using $PFSDIR directory at OSC Batch Resolved

Starting from Thursday, Feb 2nd, the $PFSDIR directory on scratch (/fs/scratch) won’t be created by job prologue. For example, if you simply use the command cd $PFSDIR,...

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9 years 8 months ago 9 years 8 months 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 9 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
OnDemand with Safari Web Services Resolved

Currently, if you have popups blocked in Safari, some services in OSC OnDemand (most notably the HPC terminal) will silently fail to work. We are working on a solution, as well as a workaround for...

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12 years 5 months ago 10 years 12 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 10 months ago 4 years 10 months ago
ACEs of a file in user's home directory will be lost using vim or cp filesystem Resolved

Access Control Entries (ACEs) of a file in the user's home directory will be lost if the file is modified using vim.  In addition, the newly created file using the cp...

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8 years 2 months ago 8 years 2 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 1 month ago 1 year 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 11 months ago 6 years 9 months ago
Schrodinger 2023.2 does not launch Software Resolved
(workaround)

Schrodinger 2023.2 does not launch through OnDemand or OnDemand desktop, failing with "fatal error"

If you do not need 2023.2 specifically, or you are able to transition to...

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10 months 2 days ago 7 months 3 weeks ago

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