Scheduled
Maintenance on Pawsey systems will be carried out on Tuesday the 3rd November 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.
HPE will be reapplying the Slingshot configuration change they made in October to perform troubleshooting in conjunction with resources in the US.
Planned work for this window includes:
• Patching of visualisation services will be undertaken
• Mediaflux server will have the latest bug and security fixes from Rocky Linux
• Mediaflux will be upgraded
• Data Portal will be upgraded
• Data Portal support for Acacia allocations will be rolled out to all projects with allocations on the Acacia
• Acacia will have some insecure packages removed
• Banksia's servers will have the latest bug and security fixes from Rocky Linux
• Banksia will be upgraded to the latest version of ScoutAM
• Banksia fibre switches will have firmware updates
• Patching of core Pawsey services will be undertaken
• Setonix will be upgraded to the Cray Programming Environment (CPE) version 26.03
• New software stack 2026.11 will be set as default on Setonix
• Setonix will have the latest bug and security fixes from SLES 15 applied
• ASKAP Ingest will have the latest bug and security fixes from SLES 15 applied
For more information about the software stack changes on Setonix, please see https://pawsey.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/US/pages/2132049952/November+2026+Software+Update+-+Important+Information.
If you have any questions, please contact help@pawsey.org.au.
Posted Oct 27, 2026 - 09:02 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), 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).