Sherlock changelog

Sherlock 1.0 retirement schedule

by Kilian Cavalotti
The Sherlock 1.0 environment is reaching end-of-life, and will be retired over the summer, according to the timeline provided below. Sherlock 2.0 will continue to work without any interruption while Sherlock 1.0 is retired. Sherlock 1.0...
Announce

We're hiring!

by Kilian Cavalotti
Ever wanted to work in a ultra-motivating scientific environment, alongside a team of exceptional individuals, providing support for amazing researchers and students to help make Sherlock an even better computing resource for the...
Announce

Owner nodes migration is complete

by Kilian Cavalotti, Sherlock sysadmin
All the Sherlock 1.0 owner nodes have been successfully migrated to Sherlock 2.0. This is an important step in the Sherlock 2.0 migration process, and bring us closer to its completion. As a result, there's no owner node on Sherlock 1...
Announce

Sherlock welcomes Volta

by Sherlock Team
The Sherlock 2.0 cluster now features the latest generation of GPU accelerators: the NVIDIA Tesla V100. Each V100 GPU features 7.8 TFlops of double-precision (FP64) performance, up to 125 TFlops for deep-learning applications, 16GB of...
New
Hardware

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

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