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Some MVAPICH2 MPI installations on Oakley, Ruby, and Owens, such as the default module mvapich2/2.2 as well as mvapich2/2.1, appear to have a bug that is triggered by certain programs.  The... Read more

LAMMPS 14May16 on Owens can hang when using the velocity command.  Inputs that hang on Owens work on Oakley and Ruby.  LAMMPS 31Mar17 on Owens also works.  Here is an example failing input snippet... Read more

There is a bug with VASP 5.4.1 built with mvapich2/2.2 on Owens... Read more

Users may experience occasional failures in file permissions with our filesystem. We've opened a case with the vendor for further investigations. If you get 'permission denied' message when you... Read more

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User may have been getting the following error message when trying to submit a PBS job using job arrays:

qsub: submit error (Maximum number of... Read more          

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/... Read more          

A new installation of intelmpi with 2019.3 version has a performance issue on Ruby. We are actively investigating this issue. If you have any questions, please contact... Read more

Password changes are taking longer than usual to process through the system. In some test cases up to 17 minutes.

We are working on resolving this issue.

NCBI blocks any connection from computing nodes because they are behind firewalls. Thus OSC users cannot use SRA tools to download data "on-the-fly" at runtime on computing nodes, e.g. 'fastq-dump... Read more

We have found that large MPI jobs may hang at startup with mvapich2/2.3 and mvapich/2.3.1 (on any compiler dependency) due to a known bug that has been fixed in release 2... Read more