Sherlock changelog

Next Sherlock order window: Jan. 17 - 31

by Sherlock Team
The next buying window for Sherlock nodes will be from Wednesday, Jan 17 through Wednesday Jan 31, 2018. If you want in and become a member of the Sherlock's Owners Club, you'll have the opportunity to choose from a catalog of selected...
Announce

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

Next scheduled maintenance: Dec. 12

by Sherlock Team
Sherlock 2.0 will not be available on Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 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

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

Next scheduled maintenance: Sept. 20

by Sherlock Team
Sherlock will not be available on Wednesday, September 20 2017 between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. System maintenance and upgrades will be performed during this time. Access to Sherlock will be unavailable, logins will be disabled and jobs won...
Maintenance

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