Owens

On December 17, 2024, Abaqus, Ansys, LS-DYNA, and Star-CCM+ will be fully migrated from the Owens cluster to the Cardinal cluster. After this date, these applications will no longer be available on Owens and will only be accessible on Cardinal. Please ensure any necessary transitions are completed before the deadline. For migration assistance, please email oschelp@osc.edu.

Schrodinger, COMSOL, and Stata will be fully migrated from Owens to Cardinal on Monday, November 4, 2024. After this date, these applications will no longer be available on Owens. If you would like to test your applications on Cardinal and do not yet have access, please email oschelp@osc.edu for assistance.

Following the report of vulnerability CVE-2024-27322 in the R programming language, we have applied security patches to older R versions, with the exception of the versions listed below. These unpatched versions will be removed from the Owens cluster by Oct 9 2024. If you are using any of the versions slated for removal, please migrate your R workflows to a secure version as soon as possible. R Versions to be Deleted from Owens Cluster: R/3.3.1 R/3.3.2 R/3.4.0 R/3.4.2; R/3.5.0 under intel16, R/3.6.0, R/3.6.0-gnu7.3. RStudio Versions to be Deleted from Owens: 3.3.2, 3.4.2, 3.6.0

Partial Owens nodes will be unavailable from July 29, 2024, to August 6, 2024, due to power changes in preparation for the Cardinal installation. This outage won't affect any running batch jobs, but users may experience longer queue wait time on Owens. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.