Ascend
Globus services (including Auth, Transfer, Flows, Search, Timer, Compute, GlobusID, and Action Providers) will be unavailable for up to 1.5 hours beginning at 10:00 AM EDT on Saturday, November 2, 2024, due to planned maintenance. Transfers in progress at the start of the downtime will resume from the last checkpoint when services are restored. For more details, please visit: https://www.globus.org/blog/maintenance-downtime-for-database-upgrades-saturday-november-2-2024.
PyTorch 2.4.0 available
A PyTorch 2.4.0 conda environment is now available. Usage via: module load pytorch/2.4.0 See OSC PyTorch software page for more details.
MVAPICH
MVAPICH is a standard library for performing parallel processing using a distributed-memory model.
System Downtime August 6 2024
A downtime for OSC HPC systems is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, August 6 2024. The downtime will affect the Pitzer, Owens and Ascend Clusters, web portals, and HPC file servers. There will be a short outage of the state-wide licenses; MyOSC (the client portal) will be available during the downtime. In preparation for the downtime, the batch scheduler will not start jobs that cannot be completed before 7 a.m., August 6. Jobs that are not started on clusters will be held until after the downtime and then started once the system is returned to production status.
Julia 1.10.4 now available on Ascend
Date:
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 5:30pm
System(s):
Julia 1.10.4 is now available on Ascend. Use module load julia/1.10.4
Partial Outage of Ascend Nodes on 07/09
There will be a planned outage affecting half of the Ascend nodes from 1-5pm on Tuesday, July 09 2024, due to scheduled power maintenance in preparation for the Cardinal installation. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Rolling reboot of Pitzer, Owens and Ascend, starting at 9am 06/06
A vulnerability, CVE-2024-27322, in the R programming language that affects the serialization and deserialization process in the R programming language prior to version 4.4.0 is discovered. This vulnerability can be exploited through R Data Serialization files or R packages, which are often shared between developers and data scientists. An attacker can create malicious RDS files or R packages containing embedded arbitrary R code that executes on the victim's target device upon interaction. R addresses the vulnerability starting from version 4.4.0.
Vulnerability in R Programming language
A vulnerability, CVE-2024-27322, in the R programming language that affects the serialization and deserialization process in the R programming language prior to version 4.4.0 is discovered. This vulnerability can be exploited through R Data Serialization (RDS) files or R packages, which are often shared between developers and data scientists. R addresses the vulnerability starting from version 4.4.0. We have installed R 4.4.0 on all clusters and recommend using R/4.4.0. Please limit package use to trusted sources.
HOWTO: Use 'rclone' to Upload Data from Google Drive
rclone is a tool that can be used to upload and download files to a cloud storage (like Microsoft OneDrive) from the command line. It's shipped as a standalone binary, but requires some user configuration before using. In this page, we will provide instructions on how to use rclone to upload data from Google Drive. For instructions with other cloud storage, check rclone Online documentation.