Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolution Description Posted Updated
GPU/VIS nodes for various OOD apps are broken Cardinal, OnDemand, Outage, Software Unresolved
(workaround)

After the most recent downtime we discovered that various OOD apps relying on the "virtualgl" module on Cardinal are broken

The following apps are broken... Read more

2 days 7 hours ago 2 days 7 hours ago
Schrodinger 2023.2 does not launch Software Unresolved
(workaround)

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

When checking the license logs, the error is that the "... Read more

1 month 2 weeks ago 6 days 10 hours ago
Apptainer container builds fail on compute nodes due to /tmp namespace behavior Software Resolved

Building Apptainer containers on compute nodes may fail during apt update or other package operations... Read more

3 weeks 5 days ago 6 days 12 hours ago
Matlab parallel pool cannot connect Matlab, Pitzer Unresolved

In some cases, matlab will hang with connecting to parallel pool on Pitzer. This was discovered in the 2026 January downtime. We are still investigating

3 weeks 5 days ago 3 weeks 5 days 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... Read more

3 months 4 weeks ago 1 month 2 weeks ago
Python version mismatch in Jupyter + Spark instance Software Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter the following error message when running a Spark instance using a custom kernel in the Jupyter + Spark app:

25/04/25 10:49:01 WARN TaskSetManager:... Read more          
8 months 3 weeks ago 1 month 3 weeks ago
AlphaFold 3 Warning: NVIDIA Driver Version Mismatch Software Resolved

While running AlphaFold 3, you may encounter the following warning message:

025-08-27 12:44:10.888652: W external/xla/xla/service/gpu/nvptx_compiler.cc... Read more          
5 months 1 day ago 2 months 1 day ago
AlphaFold 3 GPU Out-of-Memory Error During Inference Software Resolved
(workaround)

When you run AlphaFold 3, you may encounter a GPU out-of-memory (OOM) failures during model execution. The job terminated with errors similar to:

Can't... Read more          
2 months 1 week ago 2 months 1 week ago
Testing Issue for Quantum Espresso 7.4.1 on Ascend Ascend, Software Resolved

Benchmark AUSURF112 for quantum-espresso/7.4.1 on Ascend aborts.  We suspect that this is a lurking bug in Quantum Espresso and are reporting it as a convenience.  Concerned users can use... Read more

4 months 1 week ago 2 months 1 week 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... Read more

4 months 3 weeks ago 2 months 1 week ago

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