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.
Posted Feb 11, 2026 - 17:24 AWST
Update
The data portal is online.
CARTA visualisation service is operational.
Posted Feb 11, 2026 - 17:16 AWST
Update
Mediaflux is online.
Setonix is now running jobs. The CARTA and CASDA nodes are being configured.
Posted Feb 11, 2026 - 16:21 AWST
Update
Nimbus has been returned to service.
Setonix is in its final testing.
Posted Feb 11, 2026 - 16:00 AWST
Update
Banksia has been returned to service.
Posted Feb 11, 2026 - 15:59 AWST
Update
Banksia and the tape libraries have been returned to service.
Posted Feb 11, 2026 - 13:45 AWST
Update
Acacia Inget and Pawsey NECTAR has been returned to service.
Pawsey staff continue bringing up services and perform testing.
Posted Feb 11, 2026 - 11:49 AWST
Update
Pawsey and HPE staff are onsite and brining services up. Please be patient.
Posted Feb 11, 2026 - 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.
Posted Feb 10, 2026 - 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).
Posted Feb 09, 2026 - 21:20 AWST
In progress
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Feb 09, 2026 - 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.
Posted Feb 03, 2026 - 16:59 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), The Australian Biocommons (Fgenesh++), Storage Systems (Acacia Ingest, Acacia MWA, Acacia Projects, Banksia, Data Portal Systems, 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).