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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
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 4 months ago 4 years 4 months ago
Problems with MVAPICH2 Owens, Ruby, Software Resolved

Some MVAPICH2 MPI installations on Oakley, Ruby, and Owens, such as the default module mvapich2/2.2 as well as mvapich2/2.1, appear to have a bug that is triggered by certain programs.  The... Read more

8 years 3 months ago 2 years 1 week 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 1 week ago 3 years 11 months ago
Nvidia drivers on Oakley GPU Resolved

We upgraded the drivers for the Nvidia GPUs on all of our clusters during the downtime this week. Unfortunately, we are noticing some subtle problems with the GPUs on Oakley. We will be rolling... Read more

7 years 7 months ago 5 years 11 months ago
Brief disruption to external network, 2013/11/27 Connectivity Resolved

This maintenence was cancelled, to be rescheduled at some undetermined point in the future.

Between 12:01AM and 2:00AM Eastern on Wednesday, November 27th 2013, OARnet will be... Read more

10 years 6 months ago 10 years 5 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. 

2 years 9 months ago 2 years 9 months ago
Occasional failures in file permissions filesystem Resolved

Users may experience occasional failures in file permissions with our filesystem. We've opened a case with the vendor for further investigations. If you get 'permission denied' message when you... Read more

6 years 1 month ago 2 years 5 months ago
System reboot due to security vulnerability Resolved

2015/02/17 UPDATE - Security Patch Succesfully Implimented

All systems have been updated with the secuirty patch.  


Starting Thursday, 4:00PM we will begin taking systems... Read more

9 years 3 months ago 9 years 2 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 2 months ago 1 year 1 month ago
Extra messages during job startup and ending on Owens and Pitzer Batch, Owens, Pitzer Resolved

All jobs on Owens and Pitzer that started or ended after 13:14 Monday, March 11 would see the following extra messages at the beginning and end of the job:

pmlogger: cannot open log "/... Read more          
5 years 2 months ago 5 years 2 months ago

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