Ansys 2021R2 now available on Owens
Date:
Friday, August 27, 2021 - 2:00pm
System(s):
Ansys version 2021R2 is now available on Owens cluster.
Owens
Rolling reboots on owens and pitzer starting 18 Aug 2021
We will have rolling reboots of Owens and Pitzer cluster, including login and compute nodes, starting from 9am on August 18, 2021. The rolling reboot is for urgent security updates. The rolling reboots won't affect any running jobs, but users may experience longer queue wait time than usual on the cluster. User will also expect about a 10 minute outage of login nodes during the reboot of login nodes. If there are interactive jobs started from a login node and that login node is rebooted, then the job will be killed.
Jupyter security issue Aug. 13, 2021
Please do not run any Jupyter applications at OSC until further notice due to a security vulnerability. OSC will update JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook applications to rectify this as soon as possible.
See the Jupyter known issue for details:
https://www.osc.edu/resources/technical_support/known_issues/jupyter_security_issue_aug_13_2021
Backup failures on ess filesystem
The backups on the /fs/ess filesystem are having issues running. There has not been a successful backup of this filesystem since Sunday, 08 August 2021.
OSC is working with the vendor to resolve this issue as soon as Possible.
JupyterLab 3.0 available on Owens and Pitzer
JupterLab 3.0 is now available on Owens and Pitzer through OnDemand Jupyter app.
HOWTO: Use a Conda/Virtual Environment With Jupyter
The IPython kernel for a Conda/virtual environment must be installed on Jupyter prior to use. This tutorial will walk you though the installation and setup procedure.
Enable JupyterLab extensions
Extension feature is now enabled for JupyterLab 2.1 and 3.0. See HOWTO: Use Extensions with JupyterLab for more detail.
Texlive
TeX Live is a straightforward way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro pacakges, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
The following versions are available on OSC clusters:
