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HECToR Monthly Report, August 2012

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

Dates covered: 08:00 1 August 2012 to 08:00 1 September 2012
Number of hours: 744

1: Availability

Scheduled down time: 10 hours 48 minutes.

Incidents

The following incidents were recorded:

SeverityNumber
10
22
310
40

Of the four severity levels, level 1 corresponds to a contractual failure.

Out of the 10 SEV-3 Incidents, 10 were attributed to node failure events.

Details of severity level 1 incidents

None this month.

MTBF and Serviceability

AttributionFailuresMTBFUDTServiceability
Cray000:00100.0%
Site000:00100.0%
External000:00 100.0%
Other/Unknown000:00 100.0%
Overall000:00100.0%
  • 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
MCA bank 4 error 4
Node Admindown 3
MCE threshold exceeded error 2
Heartbeat error 1

2: Courses

This information is supplied by NAG Ltd

None this month.

3: Quality Tokens

None set this month

4: Hours Worked

GroupDays workedFTEs
USL 86.4 4.9
OSG 74.7 4.2

5: Performance Metrics

Technology Provision

Description TSL FSL Value
Technology reliability 85% 98.5% 100%
Technology throughput 7000 hours 8367 hours 8654 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% 97.3%
Number of SP FTEs 7.3 8.0 8.7 9.1
SP Serviceability 80% 99% 99.5% 100%