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HECToR Monthly Report, May 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 May 2013 to 08:00 1 June 2013
Number of hours: 744

1: Availability

Scheduled down time: 5 hours 2 minutes.

Incidents

The following incidents were recorded:

SeverityNumber
10
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

None this month.

MTBF and Serviceability

AttributionFailuresMTBFUDTServiceability
Cray000:00100%
Site000:00100%
External000:00 100%
Other/Unknown000:00 100%
Overall000:00100%
  • 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 2
Heartbeat error 2
Node voltage fault 2
Module voltage fault 1
Node admindown by NHC 1
MCE threshold exceeded 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
Advanced Computational Methods II (MSc), University of Southampton 3, 10, 17 May 2013 30 30 0 0 30
OpenMP, UCL 8-10 May 2013 48 21 0 0 21
Debugging, Profiling and Optimising, NAG Manchester 20-22 May 2013 12 2 0 1 3
Accelerating Applications with CUDA University of Bath 29-31 May 2013 30 15 0 0 15

3: Quality Tokens

None set this month

4: Hours Worked

GroupDays workedFTEs
USL 88.6 5.0
OSG 76.3 4.3

5: Performance Metrics

Technology Provision

Description TSL FSL Value
Technology reliability 85% 98.5% 100%
Technology throughput 7000 hours 8367 hours 8724 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% 98.5%
Number of SP FTEs 7.3 8.0 8.7 9.3
SP Serviceability 80% 99% 99.5% 100%