Known issues

Unresolved known issues

Known issue with an Unresolved Resolution state is an active problem under investigation; a temporary workaround may be available.

Resolved known issues

A known issue with a Resolved (workaround) Resolution state is an ongoing problem; a permanent workaround is available which may include using different software or hardware.

A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending 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 10 months ago 4 years 10 months ago
Lustre, Infiniband Operational and Being Monitored Closely filesystem Resolved

UPDATE: Most users should no longer see any issues with Lustre.


Again, please continue to notify OSC Help of any errors you see in job output. For example, you might see "...

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12 years 2 months ago 12 years 1 month 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 month ago 1 year 2 days ago
Abaqus Service Disruption Expected Software Resolved

Update 12/3/14: 

OSC has acquired its new ABAQUS license with new license terms.  Use is now limited by both institution and for use in educational, institutional, instructional...

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11 years 11 months ago 11 years 10 months ago
Balance could be non-existent client portal Resolved

Balances may be none existent in my.osc.edu and OSCusage command. Balances are being properly accounted for in the background.

The bug has been identified and a patch will be released ASAP...

6 years 10 months ago 6 years 9 months ago
Schrodinger 2023.2 does not launch Software Resolved
(workaround)

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

If you do not need 2023.2 specifically, or you are able to transition to...

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9 months 3 weeks ago 7 months 2 weeks ago
Gaussian g16b01 G4 problem Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Gaussian-4 (G4) theory calculations in Gaussian 16 Rev. B.01 can produce erratic results.  A workaround is to use Gaussian 16 Rev. A.03 or Rev. C.01, e.g.: 

module load gaussian/...
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7 years 8 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
Parallel job with IntelMPI hangs Software Resolved

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2 years 6 months ago 2 years 2 months ago
All HPC systems are available Login Problems, Operations, Outage Resolved

8/24/16 3:57PM: All HPC systems are availalbe including:

  • Oakley cluster for general access
  • Ruby cluster for restricted access
  • Owens cluster for...
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10 years 1 month ago 10 years 1 month 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 7 months ago 5 years 7 months ago

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