Setonix Scheduled Maintenance (August)

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre

Completed

Setonix is back in production.

Thank you for all the haiku!

If you have any issues, please reach out to the Helpful Desk (help@pawsey.org.au).

Posted Aug 06, 2026 - 13:15 AWST

Update

Something has happened to the nodes in cabinets X1000 and X1001. We have lodged a case with HPE.

Posted Aug 06, 2026 - 09:35 AWST

Update

Internal testing has passed. A number of additional services are being brought up. We hope to close out maintenance early this morning.

Posted Aug 06, 2026 - 08:22 AWST

Verifying

HPE have handed Setonix back to Pawsey.

Staff have begun startup operations. We hope to have it available for internal testing by 9 AM tomorrow morning.

Posted Aug 05, 2026 - 15:59 AWST

Update

HPE have completed the upgrade to the interim version of HPCM, and have commenced the upgrade to the final version of HPCM.

Posted Aug 04, 2026 - 17:25 AWST

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Posted Aug 03, 2026 - 17:00 AWST

Scheduled

HPE will be upgrading the management plane for Setonix which requires a multiple day outage.

HPE will commence by backing up internal services starting Monday, August 3rd at 5 PM.

HPE will then perform the upgrade over Tuesday and Wednesday, handing back Setonix to Pawsey sometime on Thursday, August 6th.

Pawsey plans to return Setonix to service by 5PM, Thursday, August 6th (or sooner).

Please note the scientific software stack will be unchanged and default Cray Programming Environment will remain the same.

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

Posted Jul 21, 2026 - 10:01 AWST

This scheduled maintenance affected: 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).