Sherlock changelog

New $SHERLOCK environment variable

by Sherlock Team
As users start trying out their job submission and application scripts on Sherlock 2.0, we figured it would be useful to easily determine on which platform those scripts are running. So we've added a new $SHERLOCK environment variable...
Improvement
New

🎉 Sherlock 2.0 Grand Opening! 🎉

by Sherlock Team
The long wait is finally over! After months of work behind the scenes, we're extremely proud to announce that Sherlock 2.0 is now open to everyone. And because good news usually come in pairs, we're officially announcing a new website...
Announce

New Lustre routers in production

by Sherlock Team
Two new Lustre routers have been put in production on Sherlock 2.0, one to serve /scratch, and the other one to serve /oak. Immediate benefits will be higher availability of the filesystems on Sherlock 2.0 clients, and doubled bandwidth...
Improvement
Hardware

Sherlock in HBO's Silicon Valley!

by Sherlock Team
Yup, that's right. The Stanford Sherlock cluster, our very own Sherlock, was mentioned in HBO's Silicon Valley Season 4 finale! Richard Hendricks wants to use Sherlock: Kudos to the show's crew for doing good research and getting it...
Announce

Slurm update

by Sherlock Team
Slurm has been updated to version 17.02.5. The full changelog is available here. Of particular interest is a fix for a problem that affected users submitting jobs to multiple partitions on Sherlock 2.0, and who could receive errors...
Update

Slurm update

by Sherlock Team
Slurm has been updated to version 17.02.4. Full changelog is available here
Update

More software available

by Sherlock Team
New software has been installed on Sherlock 2.0: biology Module | Version | Category | URL :--- | :------ | :------- | :--- mrtrix|0.3.16|neurology|http://www.mrtrix.org afni|17.1.03|neurology|https://afni.nimh.nih.gov freesurfer|6.0...
Software

New Slurm version

by Sherlock Team
Slurm has been updated to version 17.02.2. Main changes include: SSH sessions to the nodes while a job is running will now be correctly inherit the job limits quicker scheduling of interactive jobs support for PMIx job launcher Full...
Update

New software available

by Sherlock Team
The following new software modules are available on Sherlock 2.0: devel Module | Version | Category | URL :--- | :------ | :------- | :--- gcc|6.3.0|compiler|http://gcc.gnu.org ifort|2017.u2|compiler|https://software.intel.com/en-us...
Software