Current System Load - CPU

The plot below shows the status of nodes on the current ARCHER2 Full System service. A description of each of the status types is provided below the plot.

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Note: the long running reservation visible in the plot corresponds to the short QoS which is used to support small, short jobs with fast turnaround time.

Current System Load - GPU

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Service Alerts

The ARCHER2 documentation also covers some Known Issues which users may encounter when using the system.

Status Type Start End Scope User Impact Reason
Planned Service Alert 2025-10-16 00:00 Login node availability There will be an interruption to login node availability of 5-10 minutes - time TBC Login node OS update
Planned Service Alert 2025-10-16 00:00 License server availability There will be an interruption to license server availability of up to two hours - time TBC License server work
Ongoing Service Alert 2025-10-07 09:00 2025-10-09 14:00 ARCHER2 queues Users may observe slightly longer queue times for other work while some nodes are reserved for the Capability QoS. ARCHER2 Capability Days
The fifth ARCHER2 Capability Days session will run from 7-9 October 2025.
Ongoing Service Alert 2025-10-03 17:30 2025-10-06 08:00 ARCHER2 service Service at higher risk of disruption than usual. If issues arise, service may take longer to restore. Yellow weather warning for high winds in Edinburgh area leads to travel disruptions and a higher than usual risk of power/building damage issues.
Ongoing Issue 2025-06-25 13:00 Ongoing issues with /work1 file system An issue with the /work1 file system is currently being investigated. This is only impacting some jobs and examples of errors seen include Cannot read/write checkpoint; corrupt file, or maybe you are out of disk space. Under investigation

Maintenance Sessions

This section lists recent and upcoming maintenance sessions. A full list of past maintenance sessions is available.

No scheduled or recent maintenance sessions

Previous Service Alerts

This section lists the five most recent resolved service alerts from the past 30 days. A full list of historical resolved service alerts is available.

Status Type Start End Scope User Impact Reason
Resolved Issue 2025-09-30 14:00 2025-09-30 14:30 Slurm controller restart Testing new configuration with power monitoring. Testing should take around 15-30mins to complete. Whilst this is happening users will be unable to submit jobs or query job status. Add power monitoring functionality
Resolved Service Alert 2025-09-25 08:30 2025-09-26 18:00 Cooling system Small risk of service interruption Essential work on the cooling infrastructure that supports ARCHER2
Resolved Service Alert 2025-09-23 08:30 2025-09-27 08:30 All parallel jobs launched using srun All parallel jobs launched using `srun` will have their IO profile captured by the Darshan IO profiling tool. In rare cases this may cause jobs to fail or impact performance. Users can disable Darshan by adding the line `module remove darshan` before they use `srun` in their job submission scripts. Capturing data on the IO use on ARCHER2 to improve the service.
Resolved Service Alert 2025-09-17 14:00 2025-09-18 15:20 RDFaaS RDFaaS file systems unavailable (/epsrc, /general) Underlying storage systems are being updated
Resolved Service Alert 2025-09-17 14:00 2025-10-01 12:20 GPU nodes GPU nodes are unavailable HPE are working to bring the GPU nodes back into service

System Status mailings

If you would like to receive email notifications about system issues and outages, please subscribe to the System Status Notifications mailing list via SAFE

FAQ

Usage statistics

This section contains data on ARCHER2 usage for Sep 2025. Access to historical usage data is available at the end of the section.

Usage by job size and length

Heatmap of usage job size versus job length

Queue length data

The colour indicates scheduling coefficient which is computed as [run time] divided by [run time + queue time]. A scheduling coefficient of 1 indicates that there was zero time queuing, a scheduling coefficient of 0.5 means that the job spent as long queuing as it did running.

Heatmap of scheduling coefficient job size versus job length

Software usage data

Plot and table of % use and job step size statistics for different software on ARCHER2 for Sep 2025. This data is also available as a CSV file.

Plot of usage by different software

This table shows job step size statistics in cores weighted by usage, total number of job steps and percent usage broken down by different software for Sep 2025.

Software Min Q1 Median Q3 Max Jobs Nodeh PercentUse Users Projects
Overall 0 512.0 2048.0 8192.0 259200 1407188 1885539.9 100.0 700 103
Unknown 1 256.0 1000.0 3072.0 41472 866328 326105.9 17.3 369 75
Nektar++ 1 8192.0 8192.0 23040.0 65536 263 318903.3 16.9 7 3
VASP 1 384.0 768.0 2048.0 10240 46359 259874.7 13.8 110 13
OpenFOAM 1 1008.0 4096.0 25600.0 32768 1992 141131.1 7.5 42 19
Met Office UM 1 576.0 576.0 1296.0 6840 27750 109342.2 5.8 33 6
SENGA 2500 8192.0 8192.0 33500.0 33500 50 89029.0 4.7 4 2
GROMACS 1 256.0 512.0 768.0 6400 13852 81433.6 4.3 19 5
Python 1 2304.0 2304.0 9216.0 32768 6363 71221.0 3.8 22 13
LAMMPS 1 128.0 128.0 512.0 131072 15067 65629.4 3.5 28 12
No srun 0 512.0 23040.0 62592.0 259200 79621 57187.1 3.0 459 82
GENE 1 4096.0 8192.0 8192.0 12288 3244 44922.5 2.4 8 3
CASTEP 10 512.0 576.0 2048.0 4096 10795 39706.3 2.1 25 6
CP2K 1 256.0 576.0 1024.0 4096 13233 38488.1 2.0 32 9
FHI aims 16 256.0 768.0 1280.0 8192 6778 35819.4 1.9 20 5
Nek5000 512 65536.0 65536.0 65536.0 65536 35 32218.8 1.7 4 2
Hydro3D 48 36040.0 36040.0 36040.0 36040 70 24592.5 1.3 2 1
OpenSBLI 1536 64000.0 64000.0 64000.0 131072 18 20679.2 1.1 6 3
NEMO 1 1808.0 2924.0 2924.0 5504 1526 19690.8 1.0 14 3
MITgcm 18 126.0 624.0 624.0 624 3572 17405.9 0.9 11 2
Code_Saturne 4 768.0 2048.0 2048.0 4096 128 14529.6 0.8 4 2
ChemShell 32 1024.0 1024.0 1024.0 2048 329 10966.7 0.6 11 4
a.out 1 256.0 1152.0 1152.0 4096 350 10789.7 0.6 11 5
GS2 1280 2064.0 2560.0 2560.0 8256 4611 8944.8 0.5 5 2
Quantum Espresso 16 512.0 1024.0 1536.0 1536 5328 7478.1 0.4 15 5
GAMESS 128 128.0 128.0 128.0 128 117 6137.4 0.3 2 1
PeleLMeX 128 1024.0 1152.0 2304.0 4608 111 5189.8 0.3 4 1
TPLS 96 4096.0 4096.0 4096.0 4096 100 3727.8 0.2 2 1
RMT 352 1664.0 1664.0 1664.0 2304 41 3548.9 0.2 3 1
ONETEP 1 128.0 128.0 128.0 128 999 3299.1 0.2 2 1
Xcompact3d 1920 1920.0 1920.0 2048.0 131072 9 3175.9 0.2 3 3
NWChem 16 128.0 128.0 128.0 512 296474 2420.9 0.1 5 4
PDNS3D 1024 1024.0 1024.0 16384.0 16384 33 2093.8 0.1 2 1
EPOCH 256 4096.0 4096.0 4096.0 4096 81 1954.3 0.1 4 1
HemeLB 256 1024.0 1024.0 1024.0 1280 10 1648.1 0.1 2 1
CRYSTAL 64 128.0 128.0 512.0 512 607 1285.1 0.1 3 1
VAMPIRE 128 1024.0 1024.0 1024.0 1024 82 1121.0 0.1 3 1
CESM 1 128.0 128.0 1152.0 1920 146 1007.7 0.1 5 1
SBLI 1024 1024.0 1024.0 1024.0 1024 127 780.8 0.0 1 1
NAMD 32 256.0 256.0 512.0 512 37 631.9 0.0 3 3
ptau3d 8 160.0 160.0 160.0 160 42 456.4 0.0 2 1
iIMB 128 128.0 128.0 128.0 128 4 337.0 0.0 1 1
ABINIT 64 128.0 128.0 128.0 256 40 226.9 0.0 1 1
DL_MESO 128 256.0 256.0 256.0 256 14 206.3 0.0 1 1
SIESTA 128 128.0 128.0 128.0 128 163 97.1 0.0 1 1
Smilei 8 256.0 256.0 256.0 256 20 49.7 0.0 3 1
DL_POLY 128 256.0 256.0 256.0 256 11 49.2 0.0 1 1
Arm Forge 1 128.0 128.0 128.0 128 64 2.5 0.0 4 4
WRF 2 2.0 2.0 2.0 36 17 1.6 0.0 1 1
ludwig 2 8.0 16.0 16.0 16 168 1.2 0.0 2 2
FVCOM 256 256.0 256.0 256.0 256 5 0.0 0.0 1 1
HYDRA 1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1 4 0.0 0.0 2 2

Historical usage data

Period Usage Heatmap Queue Heatmap Software usage plot Software usage data
Sep 2025 Usage heatmap (PNG) Queue heatmap (PNG) Software usage plot (PNG) Software usage and size data (CSV)
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