Sherlock changelog

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

The Fall'17 Sherlock 2.0 order window is open!

by Sherlock Team
We are expanding Sherlock again! The quarterly order window for Sherlock 2.0 is now open, and will go through Oct 13. If you want in and become a member of the Sherlock's Owners Club, you'll have the opportunity to choose from a catalog...
Announce

RSS feed

by Sherlock Team
To make it even easier to follow news and updates, the Sherlock Changelog now supports RSS feeds! Just add the following URL to your favorite RSS reader: > https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu/feeds and be sure to never miss an update...
Improvement
Announce

New purge policy on $SCRATCH

by Sherlock Team
After holding up for a long time, we're implementing a new expiration policy for all files stored in $SCRATCH and $PI_SCRATCH on Sherlock. Starting October 1st 2017, all files in $SCRATCH and $PISCRATCH that have not been modified...
New
Announce

Slurm version update

by Sherlock Team
Slurm has been updated to version 17.02.7. Full changelog is available here
Update

Search fix on the documentation website

by Sherlock Team
We're glad if you didn't notice, but in case you did, the Search feature on the documentation pages had some issues when searching for complete or capitalized words. It's all fixed now, so you can open the search box (a simple key press...
Fix

GPUs now available on Sherlock 2.0

by Sherlock Team
The new gpu partition has just been open for production on Sherlock 2.0. It currently features two kinds of accelerators: NVIDIA Tesla P100-PCIe GPUs, for applications requiring double-precision (64-bit) and deep-learning training...
New
Hardware

🎉 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