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
Estimated charging for serial jobs on Oakley is incorrect Batch Resolved

Currently, the estimated RU charge reported at the end of a job shows an incorrect value for serial jobs on Oakley of the entire node. Jobs are being charged the correct amount in the official...

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11 years 1 week ago 8 years 4 months ago
Singularity: failed to run a container directly or pull an image from Singularity or Docker hub Software Resolved
(workaround)

You might encounter an error while run a container directly from a hub:

[pitzer-login01]$ apptainer run shub://vsoch/hello-world
Progress...
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1 year 5 months ago 10 months 3 weeks ago
Error when downloading SRA data on computing nodes Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

NCBI blocks any connection from computing nodes because they are behind firewalls. Thus OSC users cannot use SRA tools to download data "on-the-fly" at runtime on computing nodes, e.g. 'fastq-dump...

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7 years 2 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
'quota' command does not work on GPFS system software Resolved

The 'quota' command does not provide any information about file quotas on the GPFS filesystem. Until we fix this issue, please look at your file system usage in the message printed when you log in...

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13 years 1 month ago 10 years 3 months ago
Performance issues with MVAPICH2 on Cardinal Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

We have observed that several applications built with MVAPICH2, including Quantum ESPRESSO 7.4.1, HDF5, and OpenFOAM...

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1 year 1 month ago 10 months 3 weeks ago
Nsight GPU profiler not working due to DCGM conflict GPU, Infrastructure Resolved

UPDATE (Mar 15, 2023)

After the downtime on Mar. 14, 2023, OSC enabled a new Slurm option --gres=nsight. DCGM will be disabled on the nodes for the...

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3 years 7 months ago 4 months 4 weeks ago
DOWNTIME EXTENDED UNTIL MORNING OF 12/13/17 Resolved

We have extended the 12/12/2017 downtime until 7AM on 12/13/17 to complete filesystem maintenance that has taken longer than expected.

8 years 10 months ago 8 years 10 months ago
Security Vulnerability for GPFS filesystem Resolved

Update: The fix was deployed during May 19 Downtime. 

Clients are not able to use mm* commands to manipulate GPFS ACLs on most OSC systems, due to a security vulnerability...

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6 years 5 months ago 6 years 4 months ago
Issue when loading multiple Fluent or ANSYS modules simultaneously Software Resolved

Due to the way our Fluent and ANSYS modules are configured, simultaneously loading multiple of either module will cause a cryptic error.  The most common case of this happening is when multiple of...

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12 years 1 week ago 10 years 11 months ago
Rolling reboots across all OSC clusters beginning 09/16/2026 Resolved
  • ​​​​​​Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026

  • Affected Systems: All...

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1 month 1 day ago 2 weeks 4 days ago

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