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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
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 9 months ago 4 years 9 months ago
Nvidia drivers on Oakley GPU Resolved

We upgraded the drivers for the Nvidia GPUs on all of our clusters during the downtime this week. Unfortunately, we are noticing some subtle problems with the GPUs on Oakley. We will be rolling...

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9 years 10 months ago 8 years 3 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 week ago 11 months 3 days ago
Brief disruption to external network, 2013/11/27 Connectivity Resolved

This maintenence was cancelled, to be rescheduled at some undetermined point in the future.

Between 12:01AM and 2:00AM Eastern on Wednesday, November 27th 2013, OARnet will be...

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12 years 9 months ago 12 years 9 months ago
MOE license server down Licensing Resolved

The MOE license server is experiencing an unknown issue and potentially down.  We are working to resolve the issue.

2 years 11 months ago 2 years 11 months ago
Occasional failures in file permissions filesystem Resolved

Users may experience occasional failures in file permissions with our filesystem. We've opened a case with the vendor for further investigations. If you get 'permission denied' message when you...

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8 years 5 months ago 4 years 9 months ago
MATLAB (legacy) r2024a fails to launch on OnDemand Desktop Software Resolved
(workaround)

As of the downtime on 05/12/26 MATLAB (legacy) has stopped working when users try to open .m files in the GUI application for version r2024a. At the time we suggested to please use the...

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3 months 3 weeks ago 3 months 2 weeks ago
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 1 month ago 6 years 1 week 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...

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5 years 6 months ago 5 years 6 months ago
Unscheduled GPFS Outage filesystem Resolved

As of 11:30PM on June 16th, we have removed the GPFS filesystem from service due to a number of hardware failures. At this point, further hardware failures would put a large portion of the entire...

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11 years 2 months ago 11 years 2 months ago

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