Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolution Description Postedsort descending Updated
BWA 0.7.17 vulnerability Cardinal Resolved
(workaround)

Cardinal hosted a version of bwa that had an unpatched vulnerability, 0.7.17. 

This version has been removed from Cardinal in favor of 0.7.18

4 months 1 week ago 1 month 3 weeks ago
Upcoming Expiration of Intel Compiler Licenses on Pitzer and State-wide Licensing Resolved

Old Intel compiler licenses on Pitzer and for state-wide access with versions 19.1.3 and earlier will no longer be available from March 31, 2025. We are currently... Read more

4 months 1 day ago 3 months 4 days ago
OpenMPI 4 and NVHPC MPI Compatibility Issues with SLURM HWLOC Ascend, Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

A pure MPI application using mpirun or mpiexec with more ranks than the number of NUMA nodes may encounter an error similar to the following:... Read more

3 months 2 weeks ago 2 weeks 2 days ago
Ascend desktop including lightweight is not working Resolved

Update: this is fixed. 

Original Post:

Ascend Desktop, including... Read more

3 months 4 days ago 3 months 3 days ago
PyTorch hangs on dual-gpu node on Ascend Ascend, GPU Resolved
(workaround)

PyTorch can hang on Ascend on dual-GPU nodes

Through internal testing, we have confirmed that the hang issue only occurs on Ascend dual-GPU (nextgen) nodes. We’re still unsure why... Read more

2 months 5 days ago 1 month 4 weeks ago
OpenMPI-HPCX 4.1.x hangs on writing files on a shared file system Software Resolved
(workaround)

Your job utilizing openmpi/4.1.x-hpcx (or 4.1.x on Ascend) might hang while writing files on a shared file system. This issue is caused by a ... Read more

1 month 4 weeks ago 1 month 4 weeks 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          
1 month 4 weeks ago 1 month 4 weeks ago
OSC will remove Jupyter MATLAB Kernel Cardinal, OnDemand Resolved

OSC will remove the default MATLAB Jupyter Kernel on Tuesday, May 20th, 2025. To create your own Jupyter MATLAB Kernel please follow the documentation on the MATLAB Page... Read more

1 month 3 weeks ago 1 month 3 weeks ago
Type mismatch error Software Resolved
(workaround)

GNU compiler versions 10+ may have Fortran compiler errors like

Error: Type mismatch between actual argument at (1) and actual argument at (2) (REAL(4)/REAL(8))

... Read more

1 month 3 weeks ago 1 month 3 weeks ago
Multiple definition error Software Resolved
(workaround)

GNU compiler versions 10+ may have C compiler errors like

/.libs/libmca_mtl_psm.a(mtl_psm_component.o): multiple definition of `mca_mtl_psm_component'

This is a ... Read more

1 month 3 weeks ago 1 month 3 weeks ago

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