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= Graham only =
= Graham only =
* Graham nodes will be updated to address the recent Meltdown/Spectre issue. Compute and login nodes will be "rolling" updated, so there will be no outage.  There will be a reduction in rate of starting compute jobs, and each of the four login nodes will be incrementally rebooted.
* We are currently updating the compute and login nodes due to the recent Meltdown/Spectre issue. Nodes will be rebooted in succession so that service will not be interrupted.
* Compute nodes cannot access Internet
* Compute nodes cannot access Internet
** Solution: Contact [[Technical Support|technical support]] to request exceptions to be made; describe what you need to access and why.
** Solution: Contact [[Technical Support|technical support]] to request exceptions to be made; describe what you need to access and why.

Revision as of 18:51, 5 January 2018

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Shared issues

  • The status page at http://status.computecanada.ca/ is not updated automatically yet, so may lag in showing current status.
  • CC Clusters are vulnerable to the recent Meltdown/Spectre vulnerabilities, and will be updated, which involves updating the OS; the nodes will be rebooted progressively.

Scheduler issues

  • Interactive jobs started via salloc do not support X11 forwarding. (reported 13 December 2017 18:37 UTC) (FIXED as of 2017-12-13)
  • The CC Slurm configuration encourages whole-node jobs. When appropriate, users should request whole-node rather than per-core resources. See Job Scheduling - Whole Node Scheduling.
  • By default, the job receives environment settings from the submitting shell. This can lead to irreproducible results if it's not what you expect. To force the job to run with a fresh-like login environment, you can submit with --export=none or add #SBATCH --export=NONE to your job script.

Quota and filesystem problems

Quota errors on /project filesystem

Nearline

Missing symbolic links to project folders

Cedar only

Nothing to report at this time.

Graham only

  • We are currently updating the compute and login nodes due to the recent Meltdown/Spectre issue. Nodes will be rebooted in succession so that service will not be interrupted.
  • Compute nodes cannot access Internet
    • Solution: Contact technical support to request exceptions to be made; describe what you need to access and why.
  • Crontab is not offered on Graham.

Other issues

  1. Modules don't work for shells other than bash(sh) and tcsh.
    • Workaround: (this appears to work but not tested extensively)
      • source $LMOD_PKG/init/zsh
      • source $LMOD_PKG/init/ksh