Pawsey Scheduled Maintenance (November)
Completed
All services have been returned to production.
If you have any issues, please contact help@pawsey.org.au.
Thank you to all the Pawsey staff involved in maintenance today. Your hard work is appreciated.
Posted Nov 05, 2024 - 17:21 AWST
Verifying
Setonix and Garrawarla are back in production.
Banksia is being tested before returned to service.
The final core service is being brought online.
Posted Nov 05, 2024 - 15:12 AWST
Update
HPE have completed replacing a sensor and updating the firmware in /scratch.
Services will be installing additional software onto Setonix and updating the CLI Filter.
Posted Nov 05, 2024 - 12:18 AWST
Update
HPE have commenced updating the firmware on /scratch
Posted Nov 05, 2024 - 08:20 AWST
In progress
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Nov 05, 2024 - 08:00 AWST
Scheduled
Maintenance will be carried out on Pawsey systems on Tuesday the 5th 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.
Planned work for this window includes:
• HPE will update the firmware of the disk enclosures for the /scratch filesystem.
• HPE will replace environmental sensors in one rack and one Cooling Distribution Unit (CDU) in Setonix.
• Upgrade to Setonix visualisation nodes image and visualisation scheduler will be undertaken.
• R 4.4.1 will be installed on Setonix.
• MWA software stack will be installed on Setonix.
• The SLURM command line filter will be modified on Setonix to support mwa-gpu.
• SD Cards in Banksia's tape libraries will be replaced.
• Patching of Acacia will be undertaken.
• Part of ASKAP Buffer will be rebooted to restore redundant patching.
• Patching of core Pawsey services will be undertaken.
We expect to be able to bring all services back by the end of the day. If you have any questions, please contact help@pawsey.org.au.
Posted Oct 30, 2024 - 10:15 AWST
This scheduled maintenance affected: ASKAP (ASKAP ingest nodes, ASKAP service nodes), Central Services (Authentication and Authorization, License Server, Application Portal, Origin, Central Slurm Database, Documentation), Garrawarla (Garrawarla workq partition, Garrawarla gpuq partition, Garrawarla asvoq partition, Garrawarla copyq partition, Garrawarla login node, Slurm Controller (Garrawarla)), Storage Systems (Acacia - Projects, Banksia, Data Portal Systems, MWA Nodes, CASDA Nodes, Acacia - Ingest, MWA ASVO), Lustre filesystems (/scratch filesystem (new), /askapbuffer 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).