Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
A partial-node MPI job failed to start using Intel MPI mpiexec Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

A partial-node MPI job may fail to start using mpiexec from intelmpi/2019.3 and intelmpi/2019.7 with error messages like

[mpiexec@o0439.ten.osc....
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5 years 11 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
Torque module on Oakley improperly setting environment variables Resolved

Intel library paths are being added to the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH incorrectly when loading torque.  Additionally the Intel paths remain when the torque...

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11 years 7 months ago 8 years 4 months ago
OpenMPI 4 and NVHPC MPI Compatibility Issues with SLURM HWLOC Ascend, Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

A pure MPI application using mpirun or mpiexec with more ranks than the number of NUMA nodes may encounter an error similar to the following:...

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1 year 6 months ago 1 year 3 months ago
Negative Balance Emails client portal Resolved

Negative balance emails continue to be sent once an application is submitted.

To confirm whether or not you have truly submitted an application for additional resources and that you can...

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7 years 5 months ago 7 years 1 month ago
Emergency maintenance in OSC’s data center Feb 10 2022 Outage, Owens, Pitzer Resolved

OSC will shut down significant portions of the Owens and Pitzer clusters for several hours this afternoon (Thursday, Feb....

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4 years 7 months ago 4 years 7 months ago
Possible performance degradation after August 9th's downtime filesystem Resolved

Updates on May 20 2023:

verbsRDMA is enabled on Pitzer. 

Updates on Dec 14 2022:

verbsRDMA is enabled on Owens during December 13 downtime...

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4 years 2 months ago 3 years 4 months ago
VASP job with Out-of-Memory crashes compute node(s) Batch, Owens, Software Resolved
(workaround)

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9 years 5 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
MVAPICH 3.0 hang due to PMI mismatch with Slurm Software Resolved
(workaround)

Applications such as Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS, and NWChem experienced hangs with MVAPICH 3.0 due to a PMI mismatch. MVAPICH 3.0 was built with PMI-1, while newer Slurm versions on RHEL 9...

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12 months 3 days ago 4 months 3 weeks ago
GPFS problems on Owens filesystem Resolved

Owens is experiencing a disruption of GPFS availability. At about 4:17PM today (January 6th), OSC monitoring noticed a problem with mounts of Project on the Owens supercomputer. Jobs may have been...

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6 years 9 months ago 6 years 9 months ago
Emergency InfiniBand Shutdown (All systems) Network Resolved

We have returned to service. It appears that we have resolved the networking issues enough to allow jobs to run safely. We will continue working with our vendors to fix any remaining hardware...

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12 years 2 months ago 12 years 2 months ago

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