Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre

Service Under Maintenance

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 Under Maintenance
Remote Vis Operational
Vis scheduler Operational
Setonix vis nodes Operational
Nebula vis nodes Under Maintenance
Visualisation Lab Under Maintenance
Reservation Operational
CARTA - Stable Operational
CARTA - Test Operational
Pawsey Remote VR Under Maintenance
The Australian Biocommons Operational
Fgenesh++ Operational
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Scheduled Maintenance

Acacia Ingest Ceph upgrades Jul 14, 2026 09:00-11:00 AWST

We plan to upgrade the RADOS Gateway (RGW) component of the Acacia Ingest Ceph cluster to Squid 19.2. The service is expected to remain operational and available, but during this period it will be considered at risk. All affected research groups have been contacted and are aware of the work.

If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact help@pawsey.org.au

Posted on Jun 11, 2026 - 15:43 AWST
Allocated Cores (Setonix)
Fetching
Allocated Nodes (Setonix work partition)
Fetching
Allocated nodes (Setonix askaprt partition) ?
Fetching
Jul 10, 2026

No incidents reported today.

Jul 9, 2026
Resolved - The network switches which provide connectivity from the NetApp appliances and the Slingshot network have been reconfigured to point to the production NAT nodes.

During maintenance, the NetApp appliances will have their routing table changed to make DNS and LDAP connections go directly over the Pawsey network.

Jul 9, 08:00 AWST
Monitoring - There appears to be a network path the NetApp relies on which we have re-instated.

We (Pawsey) will investigate configuring the NetApp so it is not required.

Jul 8, 14:10 AWST
Investigating - We are investigating an issue with the NetApp serving /software
Jul 8, 13:40 AWST
Jul 8, 2026
Jul 7, 2026
Completed - All Pawsey services have been returned to service except for the Visualisation Lab and Nebula nodes.

Setonix has been upgraded to SLES 15 SP7.

The default software environment on the quantum partition has been updated to CUDA 13. For software that was built against CUDA 12, or if you encounter CUDA-related errors such as imports, linking, or undefined references, please try loading the CUDA 12 module with the module load cuda/12 command.

If you have any questions, comments or haiku, please contact the Pawsey Helpful Desk (help@pawsey.org.au).

Jul 7, 16:08 AWST
Verifying - Acacia Projects and Ingest have been returned to service.

ASKAP Ingest is operational.

Core services have been patched.

Setonix has been returned to service.

Jul 7, 15:32 AWST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 7, 08:00 AWST
Scheduled - Maintenance will be carried out on Pawsey systems on Tuesday the 7th July 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:
• Pawsey Firewalls will be updated to apply security fixes.
• Mediaflux server will have the latest bug and security fixes from Rocky Linux.
• Mediaflux will be upgraded.
• Patching of visualisation services will be undertaken.
• Acacia Projects and Ingest clusters upgrade to Ceph 19.
• Banksia will have ScoutAM and ScoutFS updates applied.
• 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.
• The ASKAP ingest cluster will be upgraded to SLES 15 SP7.
• ASKAP Buffer will have drive firmware applied.
• Setonix will be upgraded to SLES 15 SP7. The scientific software stack will be unchanged and default Cray Programming Environment will remain the same, however the AMD GPU driver will be updated to support SLES 15 SP7.

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

Jun 30, 10:42 AWST
Resolved - HPE brought back scratch this morning at 4:10 AM.

They have replaced one failed drive and will replace another three during the week.

Jul 7, 14:50 AWST
Monitoring - Scratch has been returned to service after a number of file system checks.
Jul 7, 06:10 AWST
Update - HPE are running a filesystem check on the OST in question.
Jul 6, 15:18 AWST
Identified - HPE are going to try and fail over the resources to the second OSS in a controlled manner.
Jul 6, 14:00 AWST
Investigating - One of the Object Store Targets (OSTs) is unavailable due to a failure of an Object Store Server (OSS).

HPE are currently investigating.

Jul 6, 10:24 AWST
Jul 6, 2026
Jul 5, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 4, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 3, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 2, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 1, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jun 30, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jun 29, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jun 28, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jun 27, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jun 26, 2026
Resolved - We have resolved this item and Library 1 if back online for the alternate copy. Please bear with us while it clears the backlog of stages and archive.
Jun 26, 13:31 AWST
Investigating - 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 alternate copy of files on tape will be unavailable for staging or archiving until Library 1 is restored to service.
The secondary copy is still available for all data so this should not impact the Banksia offline files service.
If you do experience any issues accessing data please let us know at help@pawsey.org.au

Jun 19, 07:07 AWST