Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre

All Systems Operational

Setonix Operational
Login nodes 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
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
Feb 13, 2026

No incidents reported today.

Feb 12, 2026

No incidents reported.

Feb 11, 2026
Completed - All Pawsey services are back in operation. If you have any questions, problems or concerns please reach out to the Helpdesk.

Please note one of the cooling units in Setonix has an issue which means that a number of CPU nodes are offline. HPE are working on the issue.

Thanks to all the staff involved over the last few days, especially the "Building guys". You are all rock stars.

Feb 11, 17:24 AWST
Update - The data portal is online.

CARTA visualisation service is operational.

Feb 11, 17:16 AWST
Update - Mediaflux is online.

Setonix is now running jobs. The CARTA and CASDA nodes are being configured.

Feb 11, 16:21 AWST
Update - Nimbus has been returned to service.

Setonix is in its final testing.

Feb 11, 16:00 AWST
Update - Banksia has been returned to service.
Feb 11, 15:59 AWST
Update - Banksia and the tape libraries have been returned to service.
Feb 11, 13:45 AWST
Update - Acacia Inget and Pawsey NECTAR has been returned to service.

Pawsey staff continue bringing up services and perform testing.

Feb 11, 11:49 AWST
Update - Pawsey and HPE staff are onsite and brining services up. Please be patient.
Feb 11, 09:15 AWST
Update - HV maintenance has proceeded to plan, and we have commenced a staged process to return systems to service and perform planned maintenance tasks.
Feb 10, 16:27 AWST
Update - All services in the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre were shutdown by 5:30 PM (AWST).

CBIS will commence HV maintenance tomorrow morning at 6 AM (AWST).

Feb 9, 21:20 AWST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Feb 9, 11:00 AWST
Scheduled - Mandatory Annual testing of the Site Main Electrical ACB Switches and High Voltage equipment will be performed on the 10th February 2026.

Pawsey will shutdown all services housed in the Pawsey Centre starting at 11am on Monday 9th February 2026 in preparation for the mandatory testing.

Staff will commence returning services and performing routine maintenance activities on Wednesday, 11th February 2026.

Systems will return to service progressively throughout Wednesday 11th February and all services are expected to be returned to researchers by noon Thursday 12th February 2026.

Planned work for this window includes:
• Setonix will have it's /software filesystem replaced with an NFS based filesystem. A final synchronisation of the Lustre filesystem and NFS filesystem will be performed.
• The new visualisation software stack on the Setonix Remote Visualisation nodes will be made default.
• Banksia will have a ScoutAM upgrade.
• The tape libraries supporting Banksia will have a firmware update.
• Acacia Projects will conclude migration work off Puppet infrastructure.
• Patching of core Pawsey services will be undertaken.

The removal of the 2023.08, 2025.03, and 2024.05 software stacks that were previously scheduled for the February maintenance has been rescheduled to be removed in that order across the March, April, and May maintenances to allow researchers more time to migrate to the 2025.08 software stack.

Feb 3, 16:59 AWST
Feb 10, 2026
Feb 9, 2026
Feb 8, 2026

No incidents reported.

Feb 7, 2026

No incidents reported.

Feb 6, 2026

No incidents reported.

Feb 5, 2026

No incidents reported.

Feb 4, 2026

No incidents reported.

Feb 3, 2026

No incidents reported.

Feb 2, 2026
Resolved - The secondary tape library maintenance was successful on Friday and we've been monitoring it over the weekend.
Feb 2, 09:33 AWST
Identified - Banksia – one of two tape copies unavailable (at risk)
The Banksia service is currently in a degraded, “at risk” state as it is operating with only one tape library instead of the standard two. As a result, the secondary copy of files will be unavailable for staging or archiving until Library 2 is restored to service. The primary copy is still available for all data so this should not impact the service. If you experience any issues accessing data please let us know at help@pawsey.org.au

The issue has been traced to a faulty tape drive in DBA 5. To resolve this, the field engineer will remove the drives from the DBA, replace the faulty unit, and reseat all components. Since DBA 5 is currently blocked, DBA 6 will need to be removed first to allow access for the repair work. This work will take some time but the engineer indicates that in the worst case it will take until Tuesday but they are hoping for resolution today.

Jan 30, 09:36 AWST
Feb 1, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 31, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 30, 2026