Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
Update - HPE have provided no new information
Oct 31, 2025 - 08:11 AWST
Update - HPE have provided no new information.
Oct 27, 2025 - 10:59 AWST
Update - HPE have provided no new information.
Oct 24, 2025 - 21:01 AWST
Update - HPE have provided no new information.

setonix-08 has slingshot issues. Pawsey is rebooting it.

Oct 20, 2025 - 13:25 AWST
Update - setonix-02 and setonix-03 have been added back to the RR DNS.
Oct 16, 2025 - 14:09 AWST
Investigating - There appears to be an issue will the Slingshot interfaces in the login nodes in Setonix. We appear to be down to 1 login node in the normal pool of login nodes.

We have had a case open with HPE for weeks, but they appear to be no closer to providing any kind of solution.

Please, please, please, please don't run any computational intensive operations on the login nodes. We have lovely compute nodes for that.

Please be aware that you can log into setonix-workflow.pawsey.org.au and get access to additional "workflow" nodes.

Oct 16, 2025 - 12:02 AWST
Identified - Pawsey is working closely with the Mediaflux vendor to resolve the issue.
Oct 30, 2025 - 14:07 AWST
Investigating - We are currently investigating an issue with the Pawsey data portal aka storage.pawsey.org.au We are working with the product vendor on this issue - so until we settle on a fix and implement it, please be advised that the portal performance is presently suboptimal and there maybe timeouts when staging data from Banksia tape to online via the Data portal web GUI or with pshell.
Oct 27, 2025 - 10:17 AWST
Setonix Degraded Performance
Login nodes ? Degraded Performance
Data-mover nodes ? Operational
Slurm scheduler ? Operational
Setonix work partition Operational
Setonix debug partition Operational
Setonix long partition Operational
Setonix copy partition Operational
Setonix askaprt partition Operational
Setonix highmem partition Operational
Setonix gpu partition Operational
Setonix gpu high mem partition Operational
Setonix gpu debug partition Operational
Lustre filesystems Operational
/scratch filesystem ? Operational
/software filesystem ? Operational
/askapbuffer filesystem ? Operational
/askapingest filesystem ? Operational
Storage Systems Degraded Performance
Acacia Ingest ? Operational
Acacia MWA ? Operational
Acacia Projects ? Operational
Banksia ? Operational
Data Portal Systems ? Degraded Performance
CASDA Nodes Operational
MWA Nodes Operational
MWA ASVO ? Operational
ASKAP Operational
ASKAP ingest nodes ? Operational
ASKAP service nodes Operational
Central Services Operational
Authentication and Authorization ? Operational
Service Desk Operational
License Server Operational
Application Portal ? Operational
Origin ? Operational
/home filesystem Operational
/pawsey filesystem Operational
Central Slurm Database ? Operational
Documentation ? Operational
Visualisation Services Operational
Remote Vis ? Operational
Vis scheduler ? Operational
Setonix vis nodes ? Operational
Nebula vis nodes ? Operational
Visualisation Lab Operational
Reservation ? Operational
CARTA - Stable ? Operational
CARTA - Test ? Operational
Pawsey Remote VR Operational
The Australian Biocommons Operational
Fgenesh++ ? Operational
Nimbus - Legacy Operational
Ceph storage ? Operational
Nimbus instances ? Operational
Nimbus dashboard ? Operational
Nimbus APIs ? Operational
Operational
Degraded Performance
Partial Outage
Major Outage
Maintenance

Scheduled Maintenance

Pawsey Scheduled Maintenance (November) Nov 4, 2025 09:00-17:00 AWST

Maintenance will be carried out on Pawsey systems on Tuesday the 4th November to apply required patches and updates to improve the systems stability, security, and performance. This maintenance window will also be used to undertake other tasks which require down-time to achieve.

Planned work for this window includes:
• A number of Arista switches will have their EOS version updated, including the border router which will interrupt all traffic into and out of Pawsey.
• HPE will reboot a number of Slingshot switches in Setonix.
• Software changes on Setonix: installing new version of nextflow (25.04.6) and vasp (6.5.1) and implementing fixes to the hipfort/6.3.0 module.
• Setonix will have the latest bug and security fixes applied from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6.
• The NetApp which provides /home on Setonix will be upgraded to the latest supported release of OnTAP.
• Acacia Ingest will commence migration work off Puppet infrastructure.
• Acacia MWA will be upgraded to the latest version of Ceph (Reef).
• Banksia will have a ScoutAM upgrade.
• Banksia fibre channel switches firmware update.
• Patching of visualisation services will be undertaken.
• Patching of core Pawsey services will be undertaken.
• The license server will be updated to the latest version of FlexLM.

If you have any questions, please contact help@pawsey.org.au.

Posted on Oct 29, 2025 - 08:14 AWST
Allocated Cores (Setonix)
Fetching
Allocated Nodes (Setonix work partition)
Fetching
Allocated nodes (Setonix askaprt partition) ?
Fetching
Nov 4, 2025

No incidents reported today.

Nov 3, 2025

No incidents reported.

Nov 2, 2025

No incidents reported.

Nov 1, 2025

No incidents reported.

Oct 31, 2025

Unresolved incident: Setonix Login nodes experiencing Slingshot issues.

Oct 30, 2025

Unresolved incident: Pawsey Data Portal performance issues.

Oct 29, 2025

No incidents reported.

Oct 28, 2025

No incidents reported.

Oct 27, 2025
Oct 26, 2025

No incidents reported.

Oct 25, 2025

No incidents reported.

Oct 24, 2025
Oct 23, 2025

No incidents reported.

Oct 22, 2025

No incidents reported.

Oct 21, 2025
Completed - The field engineer has completed the hardware replacement and the second library is back online.
Oct 21, 14:22 AWST
Scheduled - There’s a problem with a tape drive in one of the tape libraries connected to Banksia. The field engineer will fix it by taking out the drives, replacing the faulty one, and putting everything back.

This is not expected to impact operations as there are two tape libraries at Pawsey - each library contains one copy of the data Banksia holds.

Oct 20, 14:38 AWST