Known issues

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Known Issues

Titlesort ascending Category Resolution Description Posted Updated
Intermittent issue with connecting to batch server Batch, Owens Resolved

Updated on June 18, 2018, at 3:15 PM:

This issue has been fixed. 

Posted on June 18, 2018, at 12:30 PM:

We've been having intermittent... Read more

7 years 1 month ago 7 years 1 month ago
Intermittent home directory performance issues filesystem Resolved

Users may experience performance issues in home directory. It is recommended to use temporary directory ($TMPDIR, or scratch) or project storage to minimize the impact on... Read more

2 years 1 month ago 2 years 3 weeks ago
Intermittent home directory performance issues filesystem Resolved

Users may experience performance issues in home directory. It is recommended to use temporary directory ($TMPDIR, or scratch) or project storage to minimize the impact on... Read more

4 years 4 months ago 4 years 4 months ago
Intermittent failure of default CPU binding Software Resolved
(workaround)

The default CPU binding for ORCA jobs can fail sporadically.  The failure is almost immediate and produces a cryptic error message, e.g.

$ORCA/orca h2o.in... Read more          
3 months 6 days ago 3 months 6 days ago
Intermittent DNS issues Resolved

3/9/15 Update: The DNS issues have been resolved.  In total, the following services may have been affected by the DNS issues:

10 years 5 months ago 10 years 5 months 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

2 months 3 weeks ago 2 months 1 week ago
Incorrect RU Balances client portal Resolved

RESOLVED 2/20/2019

We deployed a new version of the Client Portal during our downtime on Tuesday, 2/5, and a bug has been introduced.

The Client Portal (my.osc.edu) and OSCUsage... Read more

6 years 6 months ago 6 years 5 months ago
Incorrect MPI launcher and compiler wrappers with Conda environments python/2.7-conda5.2 and python/3.6-conda5.2 Owens, Pitzer, Ruby, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Users may encounter under-performing MPI jobs or failures of compiling MPI applications if you are using Conda from system. We found pre-installed mpich2 package in some Conda environments ... Read more

5 years 4 months ago 2 months 4 weeks ago
Inconsistent performance degradation of ESS filesystem filesystem Resolved

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3 years 7 months ago 3 years 7 months ago
HWloc warning: Failed with: intersection without inclusion Ascend, Cardinal Resolved
(workaround)

When running MPI+OpenMP hybrid code with the Intel Classic Compiler and MVAPICH 3.0, you may encounter the following warning message from hwloc:

... Read more
9 months 1 week ago 3 months 1 week ago

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