Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Rolling reboot of login nodes of clusters at 7:00AM Dec 19, 2017 login Resolved

We will have rolling reboot of login nodes of clusters at 7:00AM Dec 19, 2017 for GPFS version upgrade. It is supposed to be completed in a short period of time. f you encounter any login issues,... Read more

7 years 3 months ago 7 years 2 months ago
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 9 months ago 3 years 9 months ago
Abaqus Service Disruption Expected Software Resolved

Update 12/3/14: 

OSC has acquired its new ABAQUS license with new license terms.  Use is now limited by both institution and for use in educational, institutional, instructional... Read more

10 years 4 months ago 10 years 3 months ago
Rolling reboots on owens and pitzer starting 18 Aug 2021 Batch, Connectivity, Maintenance Resolved

We will have rolling reboots of Owens and Pitzer cluster, including login and compute nodes, starting from 9am on August 18, 2021. The rolling reboot is for urgent security updates.

The... Read more

3 years 7 months ago 3 years 6 months ago
Armstrong inaccessible Resolved

Update: 2PM March 12th: Armstrong is back up and running.  Please notify oschelp@osc.edu of any lingering issues.


As of 10AM Thursday March 12th... Read more

10 years 1 week ago 10 years 1 week ago
GPFS filesystem Errors on June 4 2019 filesystem Resolved

Update Posted on 04 June 2019 12:27 PM

We fixed the problem with both project and scratch filesystem and the service has been restored. Please contact ... Read more

5 years 9 months ago 5 years 9 months ago
Possible job failures due to MPI library change on Pitzer after May 20 Software Resolved

There are changes on MPI libraries on Pitzer after May 20. We will upgrade MOFED from 4.9 to 5.6 and recompile all OpenMPI and Mvapich2 against the newer MOFED version. Users with their own MPI... Read more

1 year 10 months ago 1 year 10 months ago
Issues with VDI through OnDemand Batch Resolved

Update: Jan 23, 2017 3PM: this issue has been fixed. 

There is an issue with OSC OnDemand -> Desktops -> Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) such that you get "qsub: submit error ..."... Read more

8 years 1 month ago 8 years 1 month 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 9 months ago 4 years 9 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 1 week ago 11 years 1 week ago

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