Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre Status

Askapbuffer - Degraded - Storage Array 05 Controller A is non-functional

Update - We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
Apr 23, 2026 - 11:11 AWST

Update - Support Logs has been reviewed by the vendor
* Recommendation pre-emptively replacing "Storage Controller A"
* Part will be shipped, where "Storage Controller A" will be replaced in Storage Array 05 in "/askapbuffer" system
Apr 23, 2026 - 10:45 AWST

Update - System has been restored
* We just waiting for a vendor review of support bundle logs before we close this incident
Apr 21, 2026 - 10:17 AWST

Monitoring - Storage Controller A has been restored for array05
* We are monitoring the storage controller A
* Storage Luns has restored High availability configuration access
Apr 20, 2026 - 10:10 AWST

Identified - We have identified an issue with the "Askap Buffer" lustre filesystem where
* Filesystem is functional / usable but in a degraded state
* Storage Array 05 no longer has high availability as "Storage Controller A" is non-functional
* There will be an attempt to remediate "Storage Controller A"
Apr 20, 2026 - 09:46 AWST

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 Degraded Performance

/scratch filesystem Operational

/software filesystem Operational

/askapbuffer filesystem Degraded Performance

/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

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

Apr 24, 2026

No incidents reported today.

Apr 23, 2026

Unresolved incident: Askapbuffer - Degraded - Storage Array 05 Controller A is non-functional.

Apr 22, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 21, 2026

Apr 20, 2026

Apr 19, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 18, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 17, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 16, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 15, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 14, 2026

Banksia - Service issues affecting staging files

Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Apr 14, 09:57 AWST

Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Apr 13, 14:48 AWST

Investigating - We are currently investigating with our tape service company an issue affecting Banksia Tape Library one. It's been escalated as P1.
Apr 13, 14:27 AWST

Apr 13, 2026

Apr 12, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 11, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 10, 2026

No incidents reported.