Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
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 2 weeks ago 11 years 2 weeks ago
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

6 years 9 months ago 6 years 8 months ago
GPFS problems on Owens filesystem Resolved

Owens is experiencing a disruption of GPFS availability. At about 4:17PM today (January 6th), OSC monitoring noticed a problem with mounts of Project on the Owens supercomputer. Jobs may have been... Read more

4 years 8 months ago 4 years 8 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 2 months ago 6 years 2 months ago
Security Vulnerability for GPFS filesystem Resolved

Update: The fix was deployed during May 19 Downtime. 

Clients are not able to use mm* commands to manipulate GPFS ACLs on most OSC systems, due to a security vulnerability... Read more

4 years 4 months ago 4 years 3 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

9 years 6 months ago 9 years 6 months 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 3 months ago 5 years 3 months ago
/fs/ess and OnDemand not accessible filesystem, OnDemand Resolved

/fs/ess and OnDemand are not accessible now. We are working on this.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Please contact OSC Help if you have any questions. 

3 years 1 month ago 3 years 1 month 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

7 years 7 months ago 7 years 7 months ago
Nsight GPU profiler not working due to DCGM conflict GPU, Infrastructure Resolved

UPDATE (Mar 15, 2023)

After the downtime on Mar. 14, 2023, OSC enabled a new Slurm option --gres=nsight. DCGM will be disabled on the nodes for the job with the Slurm option,... Read more

1 year 6 months ago 1 year 6 months ago

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