HECToR Monthly Report, September 2011
Information on the utilisation, disk allocations, slowdowns and helpdesk statistics can be found in the associated SAFE monthly report.
Dates covered: 08:00 1 September 2011 to 08:00 1 October 2011
Number of hours: 720
1: Availability
Scheduled down time: 10 hours 44 minutes.
Incidents
The following incidents were recorded:
| Severity | Number |
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 18 |
| 4 | 0 |
Of the four severity levels, level 1 corresponds to a contractual failure.
Out of the 18 SEV-3 Incidents, 18 were attributed to node failure events.
Details of severity level 1 incidents
None this month.MTBF and Serviceability
| Attribution | Failures | MTBF | UDT | Serviceability |
| Cray | 0 | ∞ | 00:00 | 100.0% |
| Site | 0 | ∞ | 00:00 | 100.0% |
| External | 0 | ∞ | 00:00 | 100.0% |
| Other/Unknown | 0 | ∞ | 00:00 | 100.0% |
| Overall | 0 | ∞ | 00:00 | 100.0% |
- Note 1: Serviceability%= 100*(WCT-SDT-UDT)/(WCT-SDT)
- Note 2: MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) is defined as 732/Number of failures.
Details of single node failures
| Error Type | Number |
| Software problem (related to a user application, bug #775153) | 12 |
| MCA bank 1/4 error | 4 |
| Voltage fault | 1 |
| Thermal trip on processor | 1 |
2: Courses
This information is supplied by NAG Ltd| Title of Course | Dates | Available Places | Ordinary Attendees | Paying Attendees | CSE Staff | Total Attending |
| Fortran 95, University of Southampton | 19-21 September 2011 | 40 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Core Algorithms for High Performance Scientific Computing, Uni of Warwick | 26-30 September 2011 | 36 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Introduction to HECToR, University of Oxford | 30 September 2011 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
3: Quality Tokens
| Date | Tokens Awarded | Comment | Consortium |
| 22-Sep-2011 | * * * * * | Positive tokens - no user comments received | x01 |
| 29-Sep-2011 | * * * * * | Positive tokens - no user comments received | e139 |
4: Hours Worked
| Group | Days worked | FTEs |
| USL | 82.6 | 4.6 |
| OSG | 79.0 | 4.5 |
5: Performance Metrics
Technology Provision
| Description | TSL | FSL | Value |
| Technology reliability | 85% | 98.5% | 100% |
| Technology throughput | 7000 hours | 8367 hours | 8655 hours |
| Capability job completion rate | 70% | 90% | 100% |
| Technology MTBF | 100 hours | 126.4 hours | ∞ |
Note: Technology throughput is calculated: 12*(732-UDT-SDT), where 732 is the annual average number of hours in a month.
Note: MTBF is calculated as 732/number of failures
Service Provision
| Description | TSL | FSL | USL | Value |
| Percentage of non-in-depth queries resolved within one day | 85% | 97% | 99% | 98.7% |
| Number of SP FTEs | 7.3 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 9.1 |
| SP Serviceability | 80% | 99% | 99.5% | 100% |
