10 days agoIntroducing Boltz-1 on Sherlockby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCSoftwareWe're pleased to announce the availability of Boltz-1, a new open-source molecular interactions AI model recently released by MIT.
4 months agoSherlock 4.0: a new cluster generationby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCNewAnnounceHardwareWe are thrilled to announce that Sherlock 4.0, the fourth generation of Stanford's High-Performance Computing cluster, is now live! This major upgrade represents a significant leap forward in our computing capabilities, offering researchers
4 months agoSherlock 4.0 is coming!by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCNewHardwareWe are thrilled to announce that the next generation of Stanford's High-Performance Computing cluster is just around the corner. Mark your calendars for August 29, as we prepare to unveil Sherlock 4.0! Building on the success of previous
11 months agoSherlock goes full flashby Stéphane Thiell & Kilian Cavalotti, Research Computing TeamDataHardwareImprovementWhat could be more frustrating than anxiously waiting for your computing job to finish? Slow I/O that makes it take even longer is certainly high on the list. But not anymore! Fir, Sherlock’s scratch file system, has just undergone a major
about 1 year agoA brand new Sherlock OnDemand experienceby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCStanford Research Computing is proud to unveil Sherlock OnDemand 3.0, a cutting-edge enhancement to its computing and data storage resources, revolutionizing user interaction and efficiency.
over 1 year agoFinal hours announced for the June 2023 SRCF downtimeby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCMaintenanceAnnounceAs previously announced, the Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF), where Sherlock is hosted, will be powered off during the last week of June, in order to safely bring up power to the new SRCF2 datacenter. Sherlock will not be
over 1 year agoInstant lightweight GPU instances are now availableby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCNewHardwareWe know that getting access to GPUs on Sherlock can be difficult and feel a little frustrating at times. Which is why we are excited to announce the immediate availability of our new instant lightweight GPU instances!
almost 2 years agoSRCF is expandingby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCMaintenanceIn order to bring up a new building that will increase data center capacity, a full SRCF power shutdown is planned for late June 2023. It’s expected to last about a week, and Sherlock will be unavailable during that time.
about 2 years agoMore free compute on Sherlock!by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCAnnounceHardwareImprovementWe’re thrilled to announce that the free and generally available normal partition on Sherlock is getting an upgrade! With the addition of 24 brand new SH3_CBASE.1 compute nodes, each featuring one AMD EPYC 7543 Milan 32-core CPU and 256 GB