Owens
During the Dec. 13, 2022 downtime, we will upgrade MOFED from 4.9 to 5.6 and recompile all OpenMPI and MVAPICH2 against the newer MOFED version on Owens.
After downtime, users with their own MPI libraries on Owens may see job failures and will need to rebuild their applications linked against the MPI libraries.
System Downtime December 13, 2022
A downtime for OSC HPC systems is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, December 13, 2022. The downtime will affect the Pitzer, Owens and Ascend Clusters, web portals, and HPC file servers. MyOSC (https://my.osc.edu) and state-wide licenses will be available during the downtime. In preparation for the downtime, the batch scheduler will not start jobs that cannot be completed before 7 a.m., December 13, 2022. Jobs that are not started on clusters will be held until after the downtime and then started once the system is returned to production status.
Ansys 2022R2 available
Date:
Monday, October 17, 2022 - 4:45pm
System(s):
Ansys 2022R2 is now available on Owens.
2022 Storage Service Upgrades
In October 2022, OSC retires the Data Direct Networks (DDN) GRIDScaler system deployed in 2016 and expands the IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) for both Project and global Scratch services. This expands the total capacity of Project and Scratch storage at OSC to ~16 petabytes with better performance.
System Downtime October 11, 2022
A downtime for OSC HPC systems is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11 2022. The downtime will affect the Pitzer and Owens Clusters, web portals, and HPC file servers. MyOSC (my.osc.edu) and state-wide licenses will be available during the downtime.
In preparation for the downtime, the batch scheduler will not start jobs that cannot be completed before 7 a.m., Oct. 11 2022. Jobs that are not started on clusters will be held until after the downtime and then started once the system is returned to production status.
QGIS 3.22.8 with SAGA 7.9.1 available
QGIS 3.22.8 with SAGA 7.9.1 available on Owens and Pitzer clusters; usage via OnDemand QGIS app.
short degradation of ondemand 2022 Aug 12 11am
A short degradation of ondemand.osc.edu will occur today, 12 Aug 2022, at 11am for 5-15 minutes. During this time access to /fs/ess/ locations in ondemand file browser will not be accessible.
This is to resolve known issue for accessing /fs/ess/ locations on osc systems.
issues accessing /fs/ess/ locations
ondemand.osc.edu is no longer degraded, and access to /fs/ess/ should be healthy again. OSC staff are still working to ensure no more issues arise and we will provide another update after the known issue is completely resolved
Please contact oschelp@osc.edu if you experience any problems.