Ascend
On Thursday evening OSC experienced an outage affecting the scratch and project storage systems. *This is resolved.* If you do not see the Project or Scratch filesystems in your filebrowser in OnDemand, use the "Restart Web Server" option in the help menu in the upper right.
Citation
For more information about citations of OSC, visit https://www.osc.edu/citation.
To cite Ascend, please use the following information:
Ohio Supercomputer Center. (2022). Ascend Cluster. Ohio Supercomputer Center. https://doi.org/10.82404/6JBT-FA57
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New scratch storage policy implemented
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has implemented a new scratch filesystem storage policy. The purge period has changed from 90 days inactivity to 60 days inactivity to help alleviate recent storage stress on our scratch filesystem: https://www.osc.edu/resources/security_accessibility_and_policies
Podman
Podman is an Open Containers Initiative (OCI)‑compliant, daemonless and rootless container tool developed by Red Hat. Unlike Docker, Podman operates without a central daemon and supports secure rootless execution, making it well‑suited for HPC environments and schedulers such as Slurm.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
Podman is available on all OSC clusters. Only one version is available at any given time. To find out the current version: