Sherlock changelog

www.sherlock.stanford.edu

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

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

More free compute on Sherlock!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We’re thrilled to announce that the free and generally available normal partition on Sherlock is getting an upgrade! With the addition of 24 brand new SH3_CBASE.1 compute nodes, each featuring one AMD EPYC 7543 Milan 32-core CPU and 256 GB

More free compute on Sherlock!

ClusterShell on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

Ever wondered how your jobs were doing while they were running? Keeping a eye on a log file is nice, but what if you could quickly gather process lists, usage metrics and other data points from all the nodes your multi-node jobs are running

ClusterShell on Sherlock

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