Known issues

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Known Issues

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Intermittent home directory performance issues filesystem Resolved

Users may experience performance issues in home directory. It is recommended to use temporary directory ($TMPDIR, or scratch) or project storage to minimize the impact on... Read more

4 years 3 months ago 4 years 3 months 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          
2 months 2 days ago 2 months 2 days ago
Intermittent DNS issues Resolved

3/9/15 Update: The DNS issues have been resolved.  In total, the following services may have been affected by the DNS issues:

10 years 4 months ago 10 years 4 months ago
Instability on Clusters after May 13 Downtime Resolved

We've been experiencing some instability on the clusters (particularly Cardinal and Ascend) following the recent May 13 downtime, especially with parallel job processing. If you notice any unusual... Read more

1 month 3 weeks ago 1 month 3 days ago
Incorrect RU Balances client portal Resolved

RESOLVED 2/20/2019

We deployed a new version of the Client Portal during our downtime on Tuesday, 2/5, and a bug has been introduced.

The Client Portal (my.osc.edu) and OSCUsage... Read more

6 years 5 months ago 6 years 3 months ago
Incorrect MPI launcher and compiler wrappers with Conda environments python/2.7-conda5.2 and python/3.6-conda5.2 Owens, Pitzer, Ruby, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Users may encounter under-performing MPI jobs or failures of compiling MPI applications if you are using Conda from system. We found pre-installed mpich2 package in some Conda environments ... Read more

5 years 3 months ago 1 month 3 weeks ago
Inconsistent performance degradation of ESS filesystem filesystem Resolved

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3 years 6 months ago 3 years 6 months ago
HWloc warning: Failed with: intersection without inclusion Ascend, Cardinal Resolved
(workaround)

When running MPI+OpenMP hybrid code with the Intel Classic Compiler and MVAPICH 3.0, you may encounter the following warning message from hwloc:

... Read more
8 months 1 week ago 2 months 6 days ago
HPC Job Activity Table: Save Report client portal Resolved

If you save a report at the HPC Job Activity Table, you must exit out of your web browser in order to have the report saved correctly and be able to switch in between the reports.

There is... Read more

5 years 11 months ago 5 years 3 months ago
Home directory quota is inaccurate after Dec 14 Downtime Resolved

The home directory quota when logging into systems, or displayed through OnDemand or client portal (my.osc.edu) is inaccurate after Dec 14 Downtime. We are working on the fix now.

Please... Read more

3 years 6 months ago 3 years 4 months ago

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