Sherlock changelog

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

Cron jobs on Sherlock

by Sherlock Team
Cron jobs are not supported on Sherlock, and going forward they won't be allowed anymore. Due to various past incidents, we had to disable the functionality, to prevent runaway cron jobs to take out entire login nodes. Moreover, compute...
Improvement

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

New $SHERLOCK environment variable

by Sherlock Team
As users start trying out their job submission and application scripts on Sherlock 2.0, we figured it would be useful to easily determine on which platform those scripts are running. So we've added a new $SHERLOCK environment variable...
Improvement
New

GPUs now available on Sherlock 2.0

by Sherlock Team
The new gpu partition has just been open for production on Sherlock 2.0. It currently features two kinds of accelerators: NVIDIA Tesla P100-PCIe GPUs, for applications requiring double-precision (64-bit) and deep-learning training...
New
Hardware

🎉 Sherlock 2.0 Grand Opening! 🎉

by Sherlock Team
The long wait is finally over! After months of work behind the scenes, we're extremely proud to announce that Sherlock 2.0 is now open to everyone. And because good news usually come in pairs, we're officially announcing a new website...
Announce

New Lustre routers in production

by Sherlock Team
Two new Lustre routers have been put in production on Sherlock 2.0, one to serve /scratch, and the other one to serve /oak. Immediate benefits will be higher availability of the filesystems on Sherlock 2.0 clients, and doubled bandwidth...
Improvement
Hardware