Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
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          
5 months 2 weeks ago 4 months 4 days ago
AlphaFold 3 Warning: NVIDIA Driver Version Mismatch Software Resolved

While running AlphaFold 3, you may encounter the following warning message:

025-08-27 12:44:10.888652: W external/xla/xla/service/gpu/nvptx_compiler.cc... Read more          
5 months 1 week ago 2 months 1 week ago
Mathematica fails to launch Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Mathematica was not launching due to firewall issues. We point our mathematica instances at an external Mathematica server, which have stopped working. The issue is now resolved as of Sep... Read more

5 months 1 hour ago 4 months 2 weeks 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

1 week 1 day ago 2 days 23 hours ago
Ascend desktop including lightweight is not working Resolved

Update: this is fixed. 

Original Post:

Ascend Desktop, including... Read more

10 months 1 week ago 10 months 1 week ago
Possible job failures due to MPI library change on Pitzer after May 20 Software Resolved

There are changes on MPI libraries on Pitzer after May 20. We will upgrade MOFED from 4.9 to 5.6 and recompile all OpenMPI and Mvapich2 against the newer MOFED version. Users with their own MPI... Read more

2 years 9 months ago 2 years 9 months ago
Slurm on Pitzer is offline Resolved

The Slurm scheduler for Pitzer is currently offline. We are working with the vendor for the fix. Sorry for the inconvenience.

1 year 11 months ago 1 year 11 months ago
Slurm to be Upgraded to Version 23.11.4 Owens, Pitzer Resolved

Updates on 04/08/2024:

The rolling reboots are completed. 

Updates:

We will perform rolling reboots on this... Read more

1 year 11 months ago 1 year 10 months ago
Backup Issues Backups Resolved

Updates on 04/17:

OSC has conducted thorough validations to ensure the integrity of our backup data for user home directories and the /fs/ess filesystem. 

... Read more

1 year 10 months ago 1 year 9 months ago
Multi-node job hang with ORCA 5 Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

You may experience a multi-node job hang if the job runs into a module that requires heavy I/O, e.g., MP2 or CCSD. Additionally, it potentially leads to our GPFS performance issue. We have... Read more

1 year 10 months ago 9 months 1 week ago

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