Users may encoutner an error like 'libim_client.so: undefined reference to `uuid_unparse@UUID_1.0' while compiling MPI applications with mvapich2 in some Conda enivronments. We found pre-installed libuuid package from Conda conflicting with system libuuid libraries. The affected Conda packages are python/2.7-conda5.2, python/3.6-conda5.2 and python/3.7-2019.10.
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 overrides default MPI path. The affected Conda packages are python/2.7-conda5.2 and python/3.6-conda5.2. If users experience these issues, please re-load MPI module, e.g. module load mvapich2/2.3.2 after setting up your Conda environment.
Ansys DesignModeler with hardware acceleration is not working.
With Ansys version greater than 19.1, DesignModeler is working with software rendering mode, but it is very slow.
We have found that large MPI jobs may hang at startup with mvapich2/2.3 and mvapich/2.3.1 (on any compiler dependency) due to a known bug that has been fixed in release 2.3.2. If users experience this issue, please switch to mvapich2/2.3.2.
NCBI blocks any connection from computing nodes because they are behind firewalls. Thus OSC users cannot use SRA tools to download data "on-the-fly" at runtime on computing nodes, e.g. 'fastq-dump -X 5 SRR390728'. OSC users must download SRA data on login using the command 'prefetch' before any sequence analysis. Please see the section 'Download SRA Data' in the SRA Toolkit software page for more detail.
Due to a recent software vulnerability discovered in bwa versions 0.7.17 and 0.7.13, it is highly recommended to immediately stop using these versions and instead use bwa/0.7.17-r1198 which contains a patch to mitigate this vulnerability.
We have found that recent MPI jobs using openmpi/1.10-hpcx and openmpi/2.0-hpcx on Owens may complete or hang until the job is killed, but receive segmentation fault. Some applications might be affected (if you run these applications with openmpi mentioned above): orca, openfoam and lammps. OSC users can use other compatible versions, e.g. openmpi/1.10.7-hpcx and openmpi/2.1.6-hpcx. Please check available version from the software page.
Gaussian-4 (G4) theory calculations in Gaussian 16 Rev. B.01 can produce erratic results. A workaround is to use Gaussian 16 Rev. A.03 or Rev. C.01, e.g.:
module load gaussian/g16c01
Gaussian 16 Rev. A.03 has been made the default module on all clusters. A typical symtom is energy blow up in step 8 resulting in an unusually large, erroneous HF/GFHFB2 energy and consequently an incorrect G4 total energy.
On Pitzer both LAMMPS 22Aug18 and 5Jun19 gpu jobs with ppn=40 hang immediately after lammps begins execution. A workaround is to use ppn=39.
We are experiencing problems with the ArcGIS license server. We will resume working on restoring access to this software on October 24th, 2018.
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It is fixed and running correctly on Oct 14, 2018