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Known issues

Unresolved known issues

Known issue with an Unresolved Resolution state is an active problem under investigation; a temporary workaround may be available.

Resolved known issues

A known issue with a Resolved (workaround) Resolution state is an ongoing problem; a permanent workaround is available which may include using different software or hardware.

A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Very little free space for metadata on the scratch storage /fs/scratch filesystem Resolved

Updated 15:30 October 19:

The issue of little space for metadata on scratch storage is resolved. If you have any questions, please contact... Read more

2 years 7 months ago 2 years 7 months ago
Issue with submitting job array Batch, Owens Resolved

3:30 PM 5/10/2018 Original Post:

User may have been getting the following error message when trying to submit a PBS job using job arrays:

qsub: submit error (Maximum number of... Read more          
6 years 1 week ago 2 years 5 months ago
Large MPI job startup hang with mvapich2/2.3 and mvapich2/2.3.1 Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

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... Read more

4 years 6 months ago 2 years 1 month ago
Estimated charging for serial jobs on Oakley is incorrect Batch Resolved

Currently, the estimated RU charge reported at the end of a job shows an incorrect value for serial jobs on Oakley of the entire node. Jobs are being charged the correct amount in the official... Read more

8 years 7 months ago 5 years 11 months ago
Backup Issues Backups Resolved

Updates on 04/17:

OSC has conducted thorough validations to ensure the integrity of our backup data for user home directories and the /fs/ess filesystem. 

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1 month 2 weeks ago 1 month 3 days ago
Error when downloading SRA data on computing nodes Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

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... Read more

4 years 10 months ago 2 years 1 month ago
Rolling reboot of Pitzer cluster, starting from Feb 03, 2021 Batch, login, Pitzer Resolved

Updates at 10AM Feb 11, 2021:

The rolling reboot is completed. 

Original Post:

We will have rolling reboots of Pitzer cluster including... Read more

3 years 3 months ago 3 years 3 months ago
VASP job with Out-of-Memory crashes compute node(s) Batch, Owens, Software Resolved
(workaround)

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7 years 1 week ago 2 years 3 weeks ago
Emergency InfiniBand Shutdown (All systems) Network Resolved

We have returned to service. It appears that we have resolved the networking issues enough to allow jobs to run safely. We will continue working with our vendors to fix any remaining hardware... Read more

9 years 9 months ago 9 years 9 months ago
ondemand outage OnDemand Resolved

Resolution notes

The problems with ondemand.osc.edu are now resolved.

Users will encounter errors using... Read more

2 years 3 weeks ago 2 years 3 weeks ago

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