Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Some issues remain after downtime Login Problems, Operations, Outage Resolved

15 July 2016, 5:00PM update: some additional issues we are facing

  • We are experiencing periodic hangs of the GPFS client file system software used with the new storage environment. ...
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10 years 2 months ago 9 years 3 weeks ago
Scratch filesystem Errors on October 1st, 2019 filesystem Resolved

Updated on 12:40 PM Oct 1st, 2019: 

OSC had experienced an unexpected problem with the Scratch filesystem that gives errors "No space left on device" on all clusters since...

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7 years 1 week ago 7 years 1 week 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 2 months ago
Rolling reboot of Ascend, Owens and Pitzer starting from Oct 25 2023 Owens, Pitzer Resolved

Update on Nov 8 2023:

Rolling reboots of all clusters are completed. 

Update on Nov 3 2023:

Rolling reboots of Ascend and Pitzer clusters...

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2 years 11 months ago 2 years 11 months 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
starccm does not use vis node GPU GPU, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Issue:

When trying to run starccm on a vis node in order to use GPU for visualization (not for GPU calculation), the typical way to do this would be to load the...

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7 months 2 weeks ago 7 months 2 weeks ago
Rolling Reboot for Security Fix Resolved

A rolling reboot is in progress to address CVE-2026-23111 (nf_tables logic bug) for all clusters, including Ascend, Cardinal, and Pitzer. Login nodes will be rebooted first and access...

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3 months 4 weeks ago 3 months 2 weeks ago
Cannot use mpiexec/mpirun from OpenMPI in an interactive session Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

We found mpiexec/mpirun from OpenMPI can not be used in an interactive session (launched by sinteractive) after upgrading Pitzer and...

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5 years 7 months ago 1 year 3 months ago
Intermittent DNS issues Resolved

3/9/15 Update: The DNS issues have been resolved.  In total, the following services may have been affected by the DNS issues:

  • Logging in / Connecting out to...
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11 years 7 months ago 11 years 7 months ago
MPI-IO issues on home directories with Intel MPI 2019.3 Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Certain MPI-IO operations with intelmpi/2019.3 may crash, fail or proceed with errors on the home directory. We do not expect the same issue on our GPFS file system, such as the...

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1 year 4 months ago 1 year 4 months ago

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