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HECToR Monthly Report, June 2013

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

Dates covered: 08:00 1 June 2013 to 08:00 1 July 2013
Number of hours: 720

1: Availability

Scheduled down time: 4 hours 36 minutes.

Incidents

The following incidents were recorded:

SeverityNumber
12
20
312
40

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

Out of the 12 SEV-3 Incidents, 12 were attributed to node failure events.

Details of severity level 1 incidents

ID Date Description Length Attribution
Incident-8541 11/06/2013 esMS problems cause internal network lock 07:50 Cray
Incident-8551 11/06/2013 Cabinet c7-0 powered off due to PDU failure 05:49 Cray

MTBF and Serviceability

AttributionFailuresMTBFUDTServiceability
Cray2 366 13:3998.1%
Site000:00100%
External000:00 100%
Other/Unknown000:00 100%
Overall2 366 13:3998.1%
  • 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
MCE bk4 error (Opteron) 3
Software error - kernel panic 3
Node voltage fault 2
Heartbeat error 2
Node admindown following a failed health check 1
Out of memory error 1

2: Courses

This information is supplied by NAG Ltd

Title of Course Dates Available Places Ordinary Attendees Paying Attendees CSE Staff Total Attending
Parallel Programming with MPI, UCL 10-12 June 2013 48 16 0 0 16

3: Quality Tokens

None set this month

4: Hours Worked

GroupDays workedFTEs
USL 96.4 5.4
OSG 76.3 4.3

5: Performance Metrics

Technology Provision

Description TSL FSL Value
Technology reliability 85% 98.5% 98.1%
Technology throughput 7000 hours 8367 hours 8565 hours
Capability job completion rate 70% 90% 100%
Technology MTBF 100 hours 126.4 hours 366

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% 98.1%
Number of SP FTEs 7.3 8.0 8.7 9.7
SP Serviceability 80% 99% 99.5% 100%