Sherlock changelog

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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

Introducing Boltz-1 on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We've received numerous inquiries about the availability of AlphaFold3 on Sherlock, and we understand the excitement surrounding this groundbreaking tool. AlphaFold, developed by DeepMind, revolutionized protein structure prediction and

Introducing Boltz-1 on Sherlock

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

A brand new Sherlock OnDemand experience

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

Following a long tradition of announces and releases during the SuperComputing conference, and while SC23 is underway in Denver CO, Stanford Research Computing is proud to unveil Sherlock OnDemand 3.0, a cutting-edge enhancement to its

Final hours announced for the June 2023 SRCF downtime

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

As 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

Final hours announced for the June 2023 SRCF downtime

A new tool to help optimize job resource requirements

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

It’s not always easy to determine the right amount of resources to request for a computing job. Making sure that the application will have enough resources to run properly, but avoiding over-requests that would make the jobs spend too much

SRCF is expanding

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

The Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF), where Sherlock is hosted, has been a highly effective data center since its opening in January of 2014, and demand has grown so much that we’re expanding it! Another identical building

SRCF is expanding

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