ouollama fails to login
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Software
Performance issues with MVAPICH2 on Cardinal
We have observed that several applications built with MVAPICH2, including Quantum ESPRESSO 7.4.1, HDF5, and OpenFOAM, may experience poor performance on Cardinal. We suspect this issue could be related to the newer network devices or drivers. Since MVAPICH2 is no longer supported, we recommend switching to MVAPICH 3.0 or another MPI implementation to ensure continued performance and stability in your work.
Mathematica fails to launch
Mathematica is not launching, most likely due to license server issues. We point our mathematica instances at an external Mathematica server, which appears to have stopped working. We are getting in contact with the appropriate people now to resolve this issue
AlphaFold 3 Warning: NVIDIA Driver Version Mismatch
While running AlphaFold 3, you may encounter the following warning message:
MPI fails with UCX 1.18
After the downtime on August 19, 2025, users may encounter UCX errors such as:
UCX ERROR no active messages transport to <no debug data>: self/memory - Destination is unreachable
when running a multi-node job with intel-oneapi-mpi/2021.10.0, mvapich/3.0 or openmpi/5.0.2.
MATLAB (server) missing functionality
You may encounter missing functionality on MATLAB (server) such as SIMULINK not being available. This is because MATLAB (server) is not yet feature complete. Please try to use MATLAB legacy, which will open a VNC connection through OnDemand
cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output containing MKL messages
On all clusters the cp2k executables from module cp2k/2023.2 can produce huge output files due to many many repeating errors from MKL, e.g.:
Poor performance with hybrid MPI+OpenMPI jobs and more than 4 MPI Tasks on multiple nodes
RELION versions prior to 5 may exhibit suboptimal performance in hybrid MPI+OpenMP jobs when the number of MPI tasks exceeds four across multiple nodes.
Workaround
If possible, limit the number of MPI tasks to four or fewer to achieve optimal performance. Alternatively, consider upgrading to RELION version 5 or later, as these newer releases may include optimizations and improvements that resolve this performance issue.
Docker container runtime error on desktop due to DBUS session
When running a container using the podman or docker command on a desktop system, you may encounter an error like the following:
Error: OCI runtime error: crun: sd-bus call: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1: Input/output error
A similar issue has been discussed in Podman GitHub Issue #13429, and it has been concluded that this is not a Podman bug.
Podman storage error due to outdated configuration file
If you experience a storage error such as:
write /var/tmp/storage388772891/1: no space left on device.
you may have an outdated ~/.config/containers/storage.conf file, possibly generated by an older Podman installation on a RHEL 7 system. Removing this file should resolve the issue.
