HEASoft 6.36 now available on Cardinal
Date:
Thursday, July 2, 2026 - 5:45pm
System(s):
module load heasoft/6.36Cardinal
HEASoft
A Unified Release of the FTOOLS and XANADU Software Packages. XANADU: High-level, multi-mission tasks for X-ray astronomical spectral, timing, and imaging data analysis. FTOOLS: General and mission-specific tools to manipulate FITS files. FITSIO: Core library responsible for reading and writing FITS files. fv: General FITS file browser/editor/plotter with a graphical user interface. XSTAR: Tool for calculating the physical conditions and emission spectra of photoionized gases
Hosted Services
OSC provides hosted instances of specialized applications that require dedicated server infrastructure and authentication methods. These services run continuously on OSC systems, allowing research groups to access applications through a web browser.
vLLM 0.23.0 now available on Cardinal and Ascend
vLLM 0.23.0 is now available on Cardinal and Ascend. To use, run:
module load vllm/0.23.0
For detailed usage at OSC, see: vLLM software page
Topaz
Topaz is a software package for particle detection and image denoising in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) that uses convolutional neural networks.
ansys 2025R2 is available on Cardinal
Date:
Friday, May 8, 2026 - 1:45pm
System(s):
ansys 2025R2 is installed on Cardinal
module load ansys/2025R2
Rolling Reboot for Security Fix
A rolling reboot is in progress to address CVE-2026-23111 for all clusters, including Ascend, Cardinal, and Pitzer. Login nodes will be rebooted first and access will be temporarily disrupted. Compute nodes will reboot in a rolling fashion; running jobs will not be impacted. See: https://www.osc.edu/resources/technical_support/known_issues/rolling_reboot_for_security_fix
ptrace Disabled Across OSC Systems
ptrace has been disabled globally across all OSC systems to mitigate a newly identified Linux kernel vulnerability. See this known issue for more details: https://www.osc.edu/resources/technical_support/known_issues/ptrace_disabled_across_osc_systems
autodock-gpu 1.6 available on Cardinal
Date:
Friday, May 8, 2026 - 1:45pm
System(s):
autodock-gpu 1.6 is available on Cardinal. It is installed with numwi=128
module load autodock-gpu/1.6
