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Sherlock is hard at work against COVID-19
by Kilian Cavalotti,
About a month ago, we announced that we were dedicating a portion of Sherlock's computing resources to research projects around COVID-19. Since then, more than 15 PIs and research groups have reached out to share their projects, and their 1584378360001
Sherlock joins the fight against COVID-19
by Kilian Cavalotti,
At SRCC, we've been monitoring the COVID-19 situation very closely, and we are following all of the University guidance and recommendations regarding social distancing and workplace adaptations. While we're continuing to operate our
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Secure TensorBoard sessions with Sherlock OnDemand
by Kilian Cavalotti,
If you're into machine learning (and who isn't these days?), you probably know all about TensorBoard already. If you don't, TensorBoard is TensorFlow's visualization toolkit. It provides the visualization and tooling needed for machine
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Adventures in storage
by Kilian Cavalotti,
_This is part of our blog series about behind-the-scenes things we do on a regular basis on Sherlock, to keep it up and running in the best possible conditions for our users. Now that Sherlock's old storage system has been retired, we can 1575415800001
A newer, faster and better /scratch
by Kilian Cavalotti,
As we just announced, Sherlock now features a brand new storage system for /scratch. But what was the old system, what does the new one look like, and how did the move happen? Read on to find out! The old Since its early days, Sherlock ran 1575415800001
More scratch space for everyone!
by Kilian Cavalotti,
Today, we're super excited to announce several major changes to the /scratch filesystem on Sherlock. What's /scratch already? /scratch is Sherlock's temporary, parallel and high-performance filesystem. It's available from all the compute
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More (and easier!) GPU scheduling options
by Kilian Cavalotti,
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GPU scheduling is now easier and more powerful on Sherlock, with the addition of new job submission options especially targeted at GPU workloads. The most visible change is that you can now use the --gpus option when submitting jobs, like
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Call for scientific awesomeness!
by Kilian Cavalotti,
Every fall for the last 30 years, the HPC community has gathered at SC, the International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis, and will meet again this year, for the SC19 conference, in Denver, CO 1571088180001
Next scheduled maintenance: Oct. 16
by Kilian Cavalotti,
In order to prepare future improvements of the parallel /scratch file system, as well as performing some required work on the scheduler, Sherlock will not be available during the following times: Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 - from 8:00am