Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre Status

Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre

All Systems Operational

Setonix Operational

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 Operational

Acacia Ingest Operational

Acacia MWA Operational

Acacia Projects Operational

Banksia Operational

Data Portal Systems Operational

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

System Metrics Month Week Day

Allocated Cores (Setonix)

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Allocated Nodes (Setonix work partition)

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Allocated nodes (Setonix askaprt partition)

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Past Incidents

Aug 13, 2025

No incidents reported today.

Aug 12, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 11, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 10, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 9, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 8, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 7, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 6, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 5, 2025

Pawsey Scheduled Maintenance (August)

Completed - All services have been returned to service. As always some hardware played nicely, some hardware less so. So the Pawsey team will continue to work in the background to remediate any hardware issues identified as part of maintenance.

Please note for Setonix, the maximum NVMe allocation for non-exclusive jobs on Setonix GPU nodes is now 2604 GiB. Exclusive jobs can use up to 3500 GiB.

As announced earlier, the Cray Programming Environment (CPE) on Setonix has been updated to version 25.03 and the new version of the software stack 2025.08 is now available by default. For more information, please see: https://pawsey.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AQBhN

We are done! Huzzah (clink, clink).

Big shout out to the entire Pawsey team who helped with maintenance (nothing should be read into omissions): Ilkhom and Craig for shepherding the new software stack and making sure it worked; Ahmed for patching all the vis things like there is no tomorrow; Kevin for lending a hand (and some wisdom) to help the Services Team; Mahitha and Jeffrey for looking after Banksia while Chris is having fun in Trump land; and Audrey, Greg and Michael for making sure Acacia pleases the security gods.

And Sumitha and Boney, the superstars and unsung heros, for patching all the critical services that every other Pawsey service relies on. Your fellow yellow minions salute you.

And Stacy, for asking "are we there yet?"

As always (and despite the accusations to the contrary), Pawsey is here it help. If you run into any difficulties (no matter the size) reach out to help@pawsey.org.au and one of our friendly yellow minions will try and help. Please and thank you.
Aug 5, 17:16 AWST

Update - Acacia (Ingest, Projects and MWA) have been returned to service.
Aug 5, 15:57 AWST

Update - Setonix has been returned to service.

As announced earlier, the Cray Programming Environment (CPE) on Setonix has been updated to version 25.03 and the new version of the software stack 2025.08 is now available by default. For more information, please see:
https://pawsey.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AQBhN
Aug 5, 14:28 AWST

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 5, 09:00 AWST

Scheduled - Maintenance will be carried out on Pawsey systems on Tuesday the 5th August 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:
• Setonix will be upgraded to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 which provides bug fixes and security patches.
• Setonix GPU nodes NVMe configuration update.
• Slurm Controller (ASKAP) and Slurm Database Controller will have operating system upgrade.
• ASKAP Buffer will have iDRAC updates applied.
• Banksia will have a ScoutAM upgrade.
• Upgrade of one of the DDN 7990 arrays connected to Banksia.
• Nebula nodes will have iDRAC and BIOS updates applied.
• Patching of visualisation services will be undertaken.
• Patching of core Pawsey services will be undertaken.

CPE will be upgraded (including upgrades to the MPI libraries, GCC compiler and Cray compiler) and a new software stack will be deployed on Setonix and will become the default. The Setonix Visualisation nodes will continue to use the same software stack. More details are available on our documentation page (August 2025 Software Update - Important Information)

We expect to be able to bring all services back by the end of the day. If you have any questions, please contact help@pawsey.org.au.
Jul 29, 12:04 AWST

Aug 4, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 3, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 2, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 1, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jul 31, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jul 30, 2025

No incidents reported.