Known issues

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Known Issues

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Core label on OnDemand app is incorrect OnDemand Resolved

The core label on the OnDemand app incorrectly displays as '1', regardless of the requested number of cores for a job. While this label is incorrect, the job is still allocated the correct number... Read more

10 months 6 days ago 9 months 2 weeks ago
Correction on OSC project restriction email Account Management Resolved

Updated:

OSC has resolved this morning's issue and reverted impacted projects back to an ACTIVE status. Queued jobs under those projects will be able to start once today's... Read more

4 years 4 months ago 4 years 4 months ago
CP package hang with MVAPICH3 in Quantum-Espresso Software Resolved

While using MVAPICH3 builds of Quantum ESPRESSO (QE), users may encounter hangs when running the CP package, which can lead to job timeouts. We recommend switching to the OpenMPI build of... Read more

4 months 2 weeks ago 3 months 5 days ago
CP2K 6.1 Floating-point exception on Pitzer Cascade Lakes (48-core) node Owens, Pitzer Resolved
Program received signal SIGFPE: Floating-point exception - erroneous arithmetic operation.

Backtrace for this error:

Thid could be a bug in libxsmm 1.9.0 which is released on Mar 15... Read more

1 year 3 weeks ago 1 year 3 weeks ago
CP2K 6.1 would fail on Pitzer Cascade Lakes (48-core) node: Pitzer Resolved
(workaround)

CP2K 6.1 would fail with the following error when running on Pitzer Cascade Lakes (48-core) node:

Program received signal SIGFPE: Floating-point exception - erroneous arithmetic... Read more          
4 years 4 months ago 6 months 1 day ago
cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output containing MKL messages Ascend, Cardinal, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

On all clusters the cp2k executables from module cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output files due to many many repeating errors from MKL, e.g.:

... Read more          
3 months 4 days ago 1 month 1 week ago
Critical change about using $PFSDIR directory at OSC Batch Resolved

Starting from Thursday, Feb 2nd, the $PFSDIR directory on scratch (/fs/scratch) won’t be created by job prologue. For example, if you simply use the command cd $PFSDIR,... Read more

8 years 9 months ago 8 years 9 months ago
cuda-gdb segmentation fault on startup Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved

The CUDA debugger, cuda-gdb, can raise a segmentation fault immediately upon execution.  A workaround before executing cuda-gdb is to unload the xalt module, e.g.: 

module unload... Read more          
5 years 6 months ago 3 years 7 months ago
Data on /fs/scratch is not accessible filesystem Resolved

Updated on 10:30 AM July 3rd, 2019:

Data on /fs/scratch is accessible now. We are working with the vendor to find the root cause and apologize for any inconvenience.  ... Read more

6 years 4 months ago 6 years 4 months ago
Dec 27, 2016: Issues with /fs/project filesystem Resolved

Dec 27, 2016 3:46PM Update: Both project and scratch file systems (/fs/project and /fs/scratch ) are back to normal now.  Some users' jobs may be... Read more

8 years 10 months ago 8 years 10 months ago

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