Sherlock changelog

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Scratch that: Sherlock now has 15 PB of flash

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We are excited to announce a major expansion of Sherlock's /scratch file system. We are adding 5 PB of full-flash storage, bringing the total capacity from 10 PB to 15 PB. This investment directly addresses the sustained capacity pressure

Scratch that: Sherlock now has 15 PB of flash

Free and private AI-assisted coding on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We're excited to announce a brand new section section in the Sherlock documentation, covering how to bring AI coding tools into your HPC workflows, for free, and without sending your code and data anywhere outside Stanford. Zed + Ollama:

Free and private AI-assisted coding on Sherlock

Introducing SH4_G8TF64.1, now with 8x H200 GPUs

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of a powerful new node configuration to accelerate your GPU workloads on Sherlock: SH4_G8TF64.1. Featuring 8x NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, this new configuration delivers cutting-edge

Introducing SH4_G8TF64.1, now with 8x H200 GPUs

Back to job #1, thrice

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

Not once, not twice, but three times! For the third time in Sherlock’s history, the Slurm job ID counter was reset over the weekend, and went from job #67,043,327 all the way back to job #1! JobIDRaw Partition

Introducing a new service partition on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We’re very pleased to introduce a new service partition on Sherlock, specially designed to run non-computational management and administrative tasks. Jobs like data transfer tasks, backups, CI/CD pipelines, workflow managers, or

Introducing a new service partition on Sherlock

An update about our plans to retire Sherlock 2.0

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We wanted to share an important update about the future of some of Sherlock’s oldest compute nodes, in light of some of the more recent and worsening political and economic conditions. As many of you know, we had planned to retire the

An update about our plans to retire Sherlock 2.0

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We’re proud to announce that Sherlock has reached another significant performance milestone. Building on past successes, Sherlock continues to evolve and expand, integrating new technologies and enhancing its capabilities to meet the

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance

Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We 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

Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation

Storage quota units change: TB to TiB

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

Following in Oak footsteps, we’re excited to announce that Sherlock is adopting a new unit of measure for file system quotas. Starting today, we're transitioning from Terabytes (TB) to Tebibytes (TiB) for all storage allocations on

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