A rolling reboot is scheduled to remediate a ptrace vulnerability and safely restore debugger functionalit

Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolution Description Postedsort ascending Updated
Rolling Reboot of all three HPC clusters beginning July 7 Unresolved

A rolling reboot is scheduled to remediate a ptrace vulnerability and safely restore debugger functionality for all clusters, including Ascend, Cardinal, and Pitzer...

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1 week 3 days ago 1 day 11 hours 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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4 weeks 1 day ago 2 weeks 4 days ago
Temporary Login Node Instability on Ascend Ascend Unresolved

We are currently experiencing temporary instability on the Ascend login nodes, which may result in slow response times or unexpected session disconnects. Our team is actively...

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1 month 1 week ago 3 weeks 2 days ago
cuMemHostRegister Fails with CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE on RHEL 9.6 Ascend, Cardinal, GPU, system software Resolved

After upgrading the operating system to RHEL 9.6 during the scheduled downtime on May 12, 2026,  applications utilizing UCX (...

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1 month 1 week ago 2 weeks 2 days ago
STAR-CCM+ OpenMPI Job Failed due to Out-of-Memory Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

After the scheduled downtime on May 12, 2026, STAR-CCM+ has been encountering out-of-memory errors when running OpenMPI jobs. A message similar to the following...

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1 month 1 week ago 2 weeks 3 days ago
ptrace Disabled so Debuggers and Tracers Do Not Work Unresolved

ptrace has been disabled globally across all OSC systems to mitigate a newly identified Linux kernel vulnerability. This disables most functionality of debuggers,...

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1 month 3 weeks ago 2 weeks 15 hours 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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1 month 3 weeks ago 1 month 3 weeks ago
autodock-gpu 1.5.2 does not work on Cardinal Software Resolved

autodock-gpu/1.5.2 does not work on Cardinal. We suggest using autodock-gpu/1.6 instead

2 months 3 days ago 2 months 3 days ago
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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2 months 1 week ago 2 months 1 week ago
Reboot of Public-Facing Systems for Security Fix Resolved

Updates on May 12:

All  public-facing systems have been rebooted. 

Original Post:

Due to a critical...

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2 months 1 week ago 1 month 4 weeks ago

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