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In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 01, 2026 - 17:00 AWST
Scheduled - Please read the following carefully. It has important information about maintenance commencing 1st June. This maintenance period will be longer than usual for Setonix and ASKAP Ingest.
HPE will be upgrading the software and firmware of the infrastructure that provides the scratch filesystem on Setonix. They have successfully performed this on the Lustre filesystem attached to the test and development system, as well as the old software filesystem. Unfortunately due to the size of the scratch filesystem, they will unable to perform the scratch filesystem upgrades in the usual eight hour maintenance window.
Additionally, Pawsey will be archiving all accounting data for Setonix and ASKAP ingest before 2025.
To facilitate the Scratch filesystem upgrade and the archiving of accounting data, maintenance for Setonix and ASKAP Ingest will commence at 5 PM on the 1st June 2026, which is a public holiday in Western Australia. This will allow HPE to perform the software upgrade Monday evening, and the firmware update the following day and for the archiving to run overnight.
At this stage Pawsey is expecting HPE to hand Setonix back to Pawsey early Wednesday morning (3rd June 2026).
Maintenance on all other Pawsey systems will be carried out on Tuesday the 2nd June 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: • Network switches will have their firmware upgraded to a supported release which includes the switch used by core services. The will be potentially an interruption to ALL Pawsey services when this switch is upgraded between 8 AM and 10 AM. • Setonix will have the final bug and security fixes applied from openSUSE Leap 15.6 • Pshell v1.2.1 will be installed on Setonix • Gromacs 2026.1 GPU version will be installed on Setonix • New version of Pawsey's Data Portal will be deployed • Patching of visualisation services will be undertaken • Mediaflux server will have the latest bug and security fixes from Rocky Linux • Mediaflux will be upgraded • Acacia MWA cluster upgrade to Ceph 19 • Adjustments to the Acacia Ingest control plane • Acacia compliance runs • Banksia's tape libraries will have a firmware update • Banksia's fibre channel switches will have a firmware update • Banksia's servers will have the latest bug and security fixes from Rocky Linux • Patching of core Pawsey services will be undertaken
Please note that for security and support reasons, Setonix will likely be upgraded to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 next month. The scientific software stack and default Cray Programming Environment will remain the same, however the AMD GPU driver will need to be upgraded to support SLES 15 SP7.
If you have any questions, please contact help@pawsey.org.au.
Jun 1, 202617:00 - Jun 3, 202617:00 AWST
Setonix
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Login nodes
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Data-mover nodes
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Slurm scheduler
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Setonix work partition
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Setonix debug partition
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Setonix long partition
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Setonix copy partition
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Setonix askaprt partition
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Setonix highmem partition
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Setonix gpu partition
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Setonix gpu high mem partition
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Setonix gpu debug partition
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Lustre filesystems
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/scratch filesystem
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/software filesystem
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/askapbuffer filesystem
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/askapingest filesystem
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Storage Systems
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Acacia Ingest
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Acacia MWA
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Acacia Projects
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Banksia
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Data Portal Systems
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MWA ASVO
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ASKAP
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ASKAP ingest nodes
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ASKAP service nodes
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Central Services
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Authentication and Authorization
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Completed -
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 26, 05:00 AWST
In progress -
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 25, 22:00 AWST
Scheduled -
Our upstream network provider is performing work on the links that provide Pawsey's primary Internet connection. There may be one or more brief interruptions to access to Pawsey during this time as we switch to alternative paths. Internal connectivity between Pawsey resources (Such as Setonix to Acacia) will not be impacted. Jobs on our HPC systems will continue to be scheduled and launched but may have deteriorated access during this window to talk to off-site licence servers.
May 13, 12:52 AWST
Completed -
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 24, 17:21 AWST
In progress -
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 15, 18:21 AWST
Update -
We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.
May 15, 18:20 AWST
Scheduled -
We will be undertaking non-disrupting Banksia tape library maintenance at this time, so available tape copies will be reduced from two to one.
May 15, 18:20 AWST