Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
Classroom Jupyter and RStudio Apps Software Resolved

If you have classroom projects at OSC that used the Jupyter or RStudio apps through class.osc.edu before June 30, 2025 and plan to reuse your classroom...

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5 months 1 week ago 5 months 1 week ago
Spurious warnings about balance being exhausted client portal Resolved

Due to the price changes and some specifics about MyOSC, you may get warnings...

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6 years 3 months ago 6 years 2 months ago
Issues with VDI through OnDemand Batch Resolved

Update: Jan 23, 2017 3PM: this issue has been fixed. 

There is an issue with OSC OnDemand -> Desktops -> Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) such that you get "qsub: submit error ..."...

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9 years 8 months ago 9 years 8 months ago
Core label on OnDemand app is incorrect OnDemand Resolved

The core label on the OnDemand app incorrectly displays as '1', regardless of the requested number of cores for a job. While this label is incorrect, the job is still allocated the correct number...

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1 year 9 months ago 1 year 8 months ago
Oakley login node down login Resolved

One of the Oakley login nodes is down. We are currently working on bringing it back online. SSH connections to oakley.osc.edu may time out. A workaround is to connect directly to oakley01.osc.edu...

12 years 7 months ago 12 years 7 months ago
Very little free space for metadata on the scratch storage /fs/scratch filesystem Resolved

Updated 15:30 October 19:

The issue of little space for metadata on scratch storage is resolved. If you have any questions, please contact...

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4 years 11 months ago 4 years 11 months ago
Intermittent issue with connecting to batch server Batch, Owens Resolved

Updated on June 18, 2018, at 3:15 PM:

This issue has been fixed. 

Posted on June 18, 2018, at 12:30 PM:

We've been having intermittent...

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8 years 3 months ago 8 years 3 months ago
cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output containing MKL messages Ascend, Cardinal, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

On all clusters the cp2k executables from module cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output files due to many many repeating errors from MKL, e.g.:

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1 year 2 months ago 1 year 1 week ago
LAMMPS ppn=40 GPU problem on Pitzer Pitzer, Software Resolved

On Pitzer both LAMMPS 22Aug18 and 5Jun19 gpu jobs with ppn=40 hang immediately after lammps begins execution.  A workaround is to use ppn=39.

7 years 11 months ago 6 years 9 months ago
Mathematica fails to launch Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Mathematica was not launching due to firewall issues. We point our mathematica instances at an external Mathematica server, which have stopped working. The issue is now resolved as of Sep...

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1 year 4 weeks ago 1 year 2 weeks ago

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