We are currently experiencing temporary instability on the Ascend login nodes.

A rolling reboot is in progress to address CVE-2026-23111 for all clusters, including Ascend, Cardinal, and Pitzer.

Known issues

Unresolved known issues

Known issue with an Unresolved Resolution state is an active problem under investigation; a temporary workaround may be available.

Resolved known issues

A known issue with a Resolved (workaround) Resolution state is an ongoing problem; a permanent workaround is available which may include using different software or hardware.

A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
MPI-IO issues on home directories with Intel MPI 2019.3 Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Certain MPI-IO operations with intelmpi/2019.3 may crash, fail or proceed with errors on the home directory. We do not expect the same issue on our GPFS file system, such as the...

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1 year 1 month ago 1 year 1 month ago
Rolling reboot of all clusters, starting from Wednesday morning, April 19, 2017 Batch, Maintenance, Owens, Ruby Resolved

1:40PM 4/27/2017 Update: Rolling reboots are completed. 

3:10PM 4/18/2017 Update: Rolling reboots on Owens have started to address GPFS errors occured...

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9 years 2 months ago 9 years 1 month ago
MyOSC unavailable on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm client portal Resolved

We will be adding a charge account structure. MyOSC will be unavailable on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm while the update occurs. See...

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3 years 10 months ago 3 years 10 months ago
Lustre is still offline. HPC systems back up Maintenance Resolved

Day One of the scheduled downtime has been completed, and HPC operations have resumed. As planned, Lustre work will extend into Day Two. Jobs using /fs/lustre or $PFSDIR cannot run until this work...

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11 years 11 months ago 11 years 11 months ago
Ansys DesignModeler with hardware acceleration Software Resolved
(workaround)

Ansys DesignModeler with hardware acceleration is not working.

With Ansys version greater than 19.1, DesignModeler is working with software rendering mode, but it is very slow.

 ...

6 years 6 months ago 1 year 1 month ago
Replacement of Owens Ethernet switches from Dec 14, 2018 Network, Owens Resolved

Updated on Jan 16, 2019, at 09:20 AM:

The replacement is done except for the three switches including the login nodes of Owens. We posted another notice for more...

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7 years 9 months ago 7 years 5 months ago
Reboot of Public-Facing Systems for Security Fix Resolved

Updates on May 12:

All  public-facing systems have been rebooted. 

Original Post:

Due to a critical...

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1 month 2 weeks ago 1 month 5 days ago
Login problem Resolved

Around 10am EDT, OSC began to experience problems with our infrastructure.  Login sessions began to be affected around 11:30 EDT. The problem was resolved around 1pm EDT, and all systems have...

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2 years 1 month ago 2 years 1 month ago
Problems with Project Space (/nfs/gpfs) filesystem Resolved

(9/8/15 14:21 Eastern) Project space appears to be back to normal operation. We are running some tests to verify that the problem is fully resolved.


As of early afternoon, Sept. 8,...

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10 years 9 months ago 10 years 9 months ago
Cannot use mpiexec/mpirun from OpenMPI in an interactive session Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

We found mpiexec/mpirun from OpenMPI can not be used in an interactive session (launched by sinteractive) after upgrading Pitzer and...

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5 years 3 months ago 12 months 4 days ago

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