The HECToR Service is now closed and has been superceded by ARCHER.

HECToR Monthly Report, Phase 2B system, October 2010

Information on the utilisation, disk allocations, slowdowns and helpdesk statistics can be found in the associated SAFE monthly report.

Dates covered: 08:00 1 October 2010 to 08:00 November 2010
Number of hours: 744

1: Availability

Scheduled down time: 8 hours 46 minutes.

Incidents

The following incidents were recorded:

SeverityNumber
12
20
315
40

Details of severity level 1 incidents

ID Date Description Length Attribution
Incident-4776 04/10/2010 HSN lock-up 07:02 Cray
Incident-4946 31/10/2010 Seastar failed causing HSN disruption 03:00 Cray

MTBF and Serviceability

AttributionFailuresMTBFUDTServiceability
Cray236610:02:0098.6%
Site000:00:00100%
External000:00:00100%
Other000:00:00100%
Overall236610:02:0098.6%
  • Note 1: Serviceability%= 100*(WCT-SDT-UDT)/(WCT-SDT)
  • Note 2: MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) is defined as 732/Number of failures.

2: Performance Statistics

Technology Provision

Description Value
Technology reliability 98.6%
Technology throughput 8558 hours
Capability job completion rate 91.3%
Technology MTBF 366

Note: Technology throughput is calculated: 12*(732-UDT-SDT); 732 - annual average number of hours in a month

Note: MTBF is calculated as 732/number of failures