Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
WARN SparkSession in Jupyter + Spark instance Software Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter the following warning message when running a Spark instance using the default PySpark kernel in a Jupyter + Spark application:

WARN SparkSession: Using an... Read more          
11 months 1 week ago 11 months 5 days ago
STAR error bgzf_open: Assertion failed Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter errors that look similar to these when running STAR 2.7.10b:

STAR: bgzf.c:158: bgzf_open: Assertion `compressBound(0xff00) < 0x10000' failed.

Cause... Read more

11 months 5 days ago 10 months 3 weeks ago
Instability on Clusters after May 13 Downtime Resolved

We've been experiencing some instability on the clusters (particularly Cardinal and Ascend) following the recent May 13 downtime, especially with parallel job processing. If you notice any unusual... Read more

11 months 5 days ago 10 months 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          
11 months 5 days ago 4 months 6 days ago
NCCL hang on Ascend dual-GPU nodes Ascend, GPU, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Users may encounter the following message and experience NCCL hangs if the first operation is a barrier when running multi-GPU training. We have identified... Read more

10 months 3 weeks ago 10 months 2 weeks ago
MATLAB (server) missing functionality Software Resolved

You may encounter missing functionality on MATLAB (server) such as SIMULINK not being available. This occurs when using MATLAB version r2024a. Please use MATLAB r2024b

If... Read more

8 months 5 days ago 6 months 2 weeks 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 -... Read more          
7 months 3 weeks ago 6 months 1 week 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... Read more

3 months 4 weeks ago 1 month 2 weeks ago
Apptainer container builds fail on compute nodes due to /tmp namespace behavior Software Resolved
(workaround)

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

3 months 1 week ago 2 months 4 days ago
GPU/VIS nodes for various OOD apps are broken Cardinal, OnDemand, Outage, Software Resolved

After the most recent downtime we discovered that various OOD apps relying on the "virtualgl" module on Cardinal were broken. We have since updated and pinned the latest virtualgl version... Read more

2 months 2 weeks ago 2 months 1 week ago

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