VisIt
VisIt is an Open Source, interactive, scalable, visualization, animation and analysis tool for visualizing data defined on two- and three-dimensional structured and unstructured meshes.
Pitzer
STAR 2.7.9a is available
STAR 2.7.9a has been installed with gnu/10.3.0 compilers on Owens and Pitzer. Usage is via the module star/2.7.9a. For help loading an installation, use the command: "module spider star/2.7.9a". That command also emits information on the available executables and installation details.
System Downtime Sept 28, 2021
A downtime for all OSC HPC systems is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, September 28, 2021. The downtime will affect the Pitzer and Owens Clusters, web portals, state-wide licenses, HPC file servers, and MyOSC. Login services will not be available during this time.
In preparation for the downtime, jobs that cannot be completed before 7 a.m., September 28, 2021 will not start. Jobs that are not started on clusters will remain until after the downtime and then will be queued to start once the system is returned to production status.
Quantum Espresso 6.7 available on Owens and Pitzer
Quantum Espresso 6.7 is now available on Onwe and Pitzer clusters; visit https://www.osc.edu/resources/available_software/software_list/quantum_e... for usage.
FreeSurfer 7.2.0 available on Owens and Pitzer.
FreeSurfer version 7.2.0 is now available on Owens and Pitzer clusters. Usage via module load freesurfer/7.2.0. Visit https://www.osc.edu/resources/available_software/software_list/freesurfer for more details on configuring your environment.
AlphaFold 2.0.0 available on Pitzer
Date:
Friday, August 20, 2021 - 4:30pm
System(s):
AlphaFold version 2.0.0 is now available on Pitzer cluster; usage via module load alphafold.
Rolling reboots on owens and pitzer starting 18 Aug 2021
We will have rolling reboots of Owens and Pitzer cluster, including login and compute nodes, starting from 9am on August 18, 2021. The rolling reboot is for urgent security updates. The rolling reboots won't affect any running jobs, but users may experience longer queue wait time than usual on the cluster. User will also expect about a 10 minute outage of login nodes during the reboot of login nodes. If there are interactive jobs started from a login node and that login node is rebooted, then the job will be killed.
Jupyter security issue Aug. 13, 2021
Please do not run any Jupyter applications at OSC until further notice due to a security vulnerability. OSC will update JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook applications to rectify this as soon as possible.
See the Jupyter known issue for details:
https://www.osc.edu/resources/technical_support/known_issues/jupyter_security_issue_aug_13_2021
Backup failures on ess filesystem
The backups on the /fs/ess filesystem are having issues running. There has not been a successful backup of this filesystem since Sunday, 08 August 2021.
OSC is working with the vendor to resolve this issue as soon as Possible.
