Owens
Storage Problems - GPFS services (Project / Scratch) on Owens
We are currently seeing problems with the GPFS services at OSC. The Project and/or Scratch filesystems may be impacted. You may experience job failures.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Please contact oschelp@osc.edu if you have any questions.
https://www.osc.edu/resources/technical_support/known_issues/storage_problems_gpfs_services_project_scratch_on_owens
Wine 5.1 available on Owens
Date:
Monday, February 10, 2020 - 2:00pm
System(s):
Wine 5.1 is available on Owens; usage via 'module load wine/5.1'.
CILogon GUI update
The GUI when using CILogon has been updated with a new look.
See https://groups.google.com/a/cilogon.org/forum/#!topic/outages/aTHT9_DGYqk for details.
Rolling reboot of Owens and Pitzer starting from February 3, 2020
We will have rolling reboots of Owens and Pitzer clusters including login and compute nodes, starting from Monday, February 3, 2020, to patch recently announced security vulnerabilities. The rolling reboots won't affect any running batch jobs, but users may experience longer queue wait time than usual on both clusters.
A reboot of the login nodes is scheduled at 9AM on Monday, February 3, 2020.
owens-login02 reboot Dec 20 8:30am
The Owens login node owens-login02 will be rebooted at 8:30am on Friday, December 20 to resolve problems with its mount of /fs/project. No other systems should be affected.
2020 Storage Service Upgrades
In March 2020, OSC expanded the existing project and scratch storage filesystems by 8.6 petabytes. Adding the existing storage capacity at OSC, this brings the total storage capacity of OSC to ~14 petabytes.
System Downtime January 7, 2020
A downtime for all HPC systems is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday, January 7, 2020. The downtime will affect the Pitzer, Ruby and Owens Clusters, web portals, and HPC file servers. System access to storage and license servers hosted by OSC will not be available during this time. Login services, except for my.osc.edu, will not be available during this time.
Jobs possibly impacted by security scans
OSU's security framework requires that OSC conduct monthly security scans of compute nodes. We started the scans during September of 2019, and noticed some job failures correlated with the security scans. User jobs running during December 10th, 11th, and 12th might have been interrupted by scheduled scans.
OnDemand Version Update
On Wednesday, December 11 from 9am-915am there will be a short interruption of service for OnDemand to deploy a new version of the portal.
It will deploy some updates to the web apps and infrastructure.
**During this interruption any active shell connections, noVNC connections, and file transfers will be terminated. Afterwards one should be able to reconnect to running VDI and iHPC sessions.**
Contact oschelp@osc.edu if there are any questions.
