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.
Posted Jun 30, 2026 - 10:42 AWST
This scheduled maintenance affects: 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), The Australian Biocommons (Fgenesh++), Storage Systems (Acacia Ingest, Acacia MWA, Acacia Projects, Banksia, Data Portal Systems, MWA ASVO), 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), Visualisation Services (Remote Vis, Vis scheduler, Setonix vis nodes, Nebula vis nodes, Visualisation Lab, Reservation, CARTA - Stable, CARTA - Test, Pawsey Remote VR), and Lustre filesystems (/askapbuffer filesystem).