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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Rolling reboot of Ascend, Owens and Pitzer starting from Oct 25 2023 Owens, Pitzer Resolved

Update on Nov 8 2023:

Rolling reboots of all clusters are completed. 

Update on Nov 3 2023:

Rolling reboots of Ascend and Pitzer clusters... Read more

2 years 1 month ago 2 years 1 month 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... Read more

1 year 7 months ago 1 year 7 months ago
Lustre Updates filesystem Resolved

9/10/14 - We have not seen any additional crashes of the Lustre servers since making this change.

8/26/14 
- Lustre jobs are being accepted as of 10AM this... Read more

11 years 3 months ago 11 years 3 months ago
Stale File Handles on GPFS clients filesystem Resolved

OSC is experiencing some problems with the Project and Scratch filesystems that are resulting in some jobs seeing "stale file handles". We are investigating the problem and will provide updates as... Read more

6 years 12 months ago 6 years 12 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... Read more

4 years 9 months ago 6 months 2 days ago
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... Read more

7 months 1 week ago 7 months 1 week ago
Problems with MVAPICH2 Owens, Ruby, Software Resolved

Some MVAPICH2 MPI installations on Oakley, Ruby, and Owens, such as the default module mvapich2/2.2 as well as mvapich2/2.1, appear to have a bug that is triggered by certain programs.  The... Read more

9 years 10 months ago 3 years 7 months 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... Read more

3 years 4 months ago 3 years 4 months ago
Brief interruption of services for some users filesystem Resolved

Today, May 14 2013, at 12:45PM we will be temporarily removing one of the home directory servers from service to address some reliability issues. Users with home... Read more

12 years 7 months ago 12 years 7 months ago
OnDemand has NOT been working with external providers since 08/22 OnDemand Resolved

Updates on 9:40AM August 23, 2017: this issue has been resolved. 

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Issue:

User can NOT login to OnDemand (ondemand.osc.edu)... Read more

8 years 3 months ago 8 years 3 months ago

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