We've been experiencing some instability on the clusters (particularly Cardinal and Ascend). 

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 descending Description Posted Updated
OnDemand Apps are not working OnDemand, Outage Resolved

Apps through OnDemand (ondemand.osc.edu) can't be launched successfully. You will see the error like:


Failed to submit session with the following error:
sbatch: error: 'pitzer... Read more

3 years 11 months ago 3 years 11 months ago
Gaussian g16b01 G4 problem Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Gaussian-4 (G4) theory calculations in Gaussian 16 Rev. B.01 can produce erratic results.  A workaround is to use Gaussian 16 Rev. A.03 or Rev. C.01, e.g.: 

module load gaussian/... Read more          
6 years 3 months ago 2 days 23 hours ago
STAR error bgzf_open: Assertion failed Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter errors that look similar to these when running STAR 2.7.10b on Cardinal:

STAR: bgzf.c:158: bgzf_open: Assertion `compressBound(0xff00) < 0x10000' failed.
... Read more
23 hours 7 min ago 22 hours 59 min ago
All HPC systems are available Login Problems, Operations, Outage Resolved

8/24/16 3:57PM: All HPC systems are availalbe including:

  • Oakley cluster for general access
  • Ruby cluster for restricted access
  • Owens cluster for... Read more
8 years 9 months ago 8 years 8 months ago
Some backups of ESS project directories are missed Resolved

Backups of ESS project directories (/fs/ess) are missed on August 10 and 13, 2022. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Please contact OSC Help if you... Read more

2 years 9 months ago 2 years 9 months ago
Brief disruption of GPFS on 8/28/2013 filesystem Resolved

On the morning August 28th, 2013 we will briefly disrupt the GPFS filesystem to reboot servers. This is necessary to upgrade the GPFS system. The in-place upgrade should only briefly interrupt... Read more

11 years 8 months ago 11 years 8 months ago
Oakley login node down login Resolved

One of the Oakley login nodes is down. We are currently working on bringing it back online. SSH connections to oakley.osc.edu may time out. A workaround is to connect directly to oakley01.osc.edu... Read more

11 years 2 months ago 11 years 2 months ago
Problems with the home directories filesystem Resolved

 We are currently seeing problems with the home directories at OSC's HPC facility.... Read more

4 years 11 months ago 4 years 11 months ago
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

6 years 11 months ago 6 years 11 months ago
Abaqus Parallel Job Failure with PMPI Due to Out-of-Memory (OOM) Error Cardinal Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter the following error while running an Abaqus parallel job with PMPI:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "SMAPylModules/SMAPylDriverPy.m/src/driverAnalysis.py",... Read more          
4 months 3 weeks ago 2 weeks 23 hours ago

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