Sherlock changelog

Sherlock 2.0 limits increased

by Sherlock Team
We started migrating compute nodes from Sherlock 1.0 to Sherlock 2.0, as part of the 2nd phase of the transition process described in the Sherlock 2.0 transition guide. That means that more nodes are now available on Sherlock 2.0, in...
Update

Job #10,000,000! 🎉

by Sherlock Team
Sherlock 2.0 has run its ten millionth job over the week-end! That's 10,000,000 jobs in a little over a year. Congratulations to everyone for supporting us and continuing to make Sherlock a great platform to support research!
Announce

New software modules

by Sherlock Team
If you haven't checked in a while, we're continuing to add more software modules on Sherlock 2.0. Among many others, the following additions will be of particular interest to the bioinformatics and genomics communities: star cufflinks...
Software
New

Office hours have a new location!

by Sherlock Team
Starting Thursday, Feb. 15th, office hours will take place in room 255, Polya Hall. The hours stay the same: Tuesdays, 10am-11am, Polya 255 Thursdays, 3pm-4pm, Polya 255 See you there!
Announce

GPU compute modes

by Sherlock Team
We developed a new extension to allow users to change the compute mode of the GPUs allocated to their jobs. By default, GPUs are set in the "Exclusive Process" mode for best performance and ensure that only one process can use the GPU...
Improvement
New

The first Sherlock order window for 2018 is open!

by Sherlock Team
The first buying window for Sherlock nodes is now open, and will go through Wednesday Jan 31, 2018. If you find Sherlock useful, would like to get even more work done on it, and become a member of the Sherlock's Owners Club, you now...
Announce

Next scheduled maintenance: Jan. 31

by Sherlock Team
Sherlock 2.0 will not be available on Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 from 8:00am to 2:00pm System maintenance and upgrades will be performed during this time. Access to Sherlock 2.0 will be unavailable, logins will be disabled and jobs...
Maintenance

Next Sherlock order window: Jan. 17 - 31

by Sherlock Team
The next buying window for Sherlock nodes will be from Wednesday, Jan 17 through Wednesday Jan 31, 2018. If you want in and become a member of the Sherlock's Owners Club, you'll have the opportunity to choose from a catalog of selected...
Announce

New login nodes

by Sherlock Team
Two new login nodes, sh-ln03 and sh-ln04 are now available to connect to Sherlock 2.0. They've been added to the load-balanced DNS pool and will automatically be selected according to their load and the number of currently logged-in...
Improvement
Hardware
New