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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...
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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...timestamp1571088180001
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...timestamp1568310240001
🎉 Job #50,000,000!
by Kilian Cavalotti
We just wanted to share that Sherlock recently ran job #50,000,000! 🎈🎉 This is a significant milestone since Sherlock, in its current form, started running its first job in January 2017. Fifty million jobs in less than 3 years is no...
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Easier connection to Sherlock's DTNs
by Kilian Cavalotti
We know that easy access to data is essential, and that moving data around is a key part of every user's workflow on Sherlock. We also know that two-factor authentication (2FA) can sometimes get in the way, and hinder the ability to get...
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When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup
by Kilian Cavalotti
Today, we'd like to share some of our recent work on Sherlock that allowed a pretty significant speedup when listing files in directories with a lot of entries. > Unlike our usual announcements, this post is more of a behind-the-scenes...
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Out with the old, in with the new!
by Kilian Cavalotti
It's been a little over five years since Sherlock first entered production and ran its first jobs. A lot of time has passed, and with it, Sherlock grew ten-fold, its user base exploded and technology trends evolved significantly. The...timestamp1550277300001
New GPU node available on Sherlock
by Kilian Cavalotti
There's a new GPU node in the gpu partition! It's notable for a list of reasons. This is the first node on Sherlock to feature both: the latest generation of Intel CPUs (Skylake), the latest generation of computing-optimized NVIDIA GPUs...
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Next scheduled maintenance: Feb. 5
by Kilian Cavalotti
Sherlock will not be available on Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 from 8:00am to 6:00pm. System maintenance and upgrades will be performed during this time. Access to Sherlock will be unavailable, logins will be disabled and jobs won't run...