Completed
All Pawsey services have been returned to production.
Please e-mail help@pawsey.org.au if you require assistance.
Posted Sep 02, 2025 - 16:00 AWST
In progress
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Sep 02, 2025 - 08:00 AWST
Scheduled
Maintenance will be carried out on Pawsey systems on Tuesday the 2nd September 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:
• Implementation of Firewall-Border re-design (this will affect all network connectivity to all systems at Pawsey, including Acacia, Nimbus, Banksia, Nebula and Setonix).
• Setonix will have the latest bug and security fixes applied from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6.
• Setonix will have the latest "extended support" versions of HPE Slingshot Host Software and HPE User Services Software applied.
• Limits on the gpu partition on Setonix will be updated: max number of concurrent jobs per user will be set to 64 and max number of jobs submitted per user will be set to 1024 for all users.
• Limits on the gpu-highmem partition on Setonix will be updated: max number of concurrent jobs per user will be set to 8 and max number of jobs submitted per user will be set to 256 for all users.
• Banksia will have a ScoutAM upgrade.
• Banksia tape library firmware update.
• Patching of visualisation services will be undertaken.
• Patching of core Pawsey services will be undertaken.
Posted Aug 25, 2025 - 16:05 AWST
This scheduled maintenance affected: ASKAP (ASKAP ingest nodes, ASKAP service nodes), Central Services (Authentication and Authorization, Service Desk, License Server, Application Portal, Origin, /home filesystem, /pawsey filesystem, Central Slurm Database, Documentation), Nimbus - Legacy (Ceph storage, Nimbus instances, Nimbus dashboard, Nimbus APIs), The Australian Biocommons (Fgenesh++), Storage Systems (Acacia Ingest, Acacia MWA, Acacia Projects, Banksia, Data Portal Systems, CASDA Nodes, MWA Nodes, MWA ASVO), Lustre filesystems (/scratch filesystem, /software filesystem, /askapbuffer filesystem, /askapingest filesystem), Setonix (Login nodes, Data-mover nodes, Slurm scheduler, Setonix work partition, Setonix debug partition, Setonix long partition, Setonix copy partition, Setonix askaprt partition, Setonix highmem partition, Setonix gpu partition, Setonix gpu high mem partition, Setonix gpu debug partition), and Visualisation Services (Remote Vis, Vis scheduler, Setonix vis nodes, Nebula vis nodes, Visualisation Lab, Reservation, CARTA - Stable, CARTA - Test, Pawsey Remote VR).