Sherlock changelog

www.sherlock.stanford.edu

Spark on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti

Apache Spark is now available on Sherlock, via the spark module: $ ml spark We also added some new documentation and example job scripts, so if you ever needed to run Spark jobs on Sherlock, please take a look at those and let us know...

Sherlock 1.0 retirement schedule

by Kilian Cavalotti

The Sherlock 1.0 environment is reaching end-of-life, and will be retired over the summer, according to the timeline provided below. Sherlock 2.0 will continue to work without any interruption while Sherlock 1.0 is retired. Sherlock 1.0...

We're hiring!

by Kilian Cavalotti

Ever wanted to work in a ultra-motivating scientific environment, alongside a team of exceptional individuals, providing support for amazing researchers and students to help make Sherlock an even better computing resource for the...

Owner nodes migration is complete

by Kilian Cavalotti, Sherlock sysadmin

All the Sherlock 1.0 owner nodes have been successfully migrated to Sherlock 2.0. This is an important step in the Sherlock 2.0 migration process, and bring us closer to its completion. As a result, there's no owner node on Sherlock 1...

Tensorflow 1.7.0 now available

by Sherlock Team

Tensorflow 1.7.0, which features TensorRT integration, is now available on Sherlock 2.0. You can load it on Sherlock with: $ ml py-tensorflow/1.7.0_py27 > NB: As with all the other Tensorflow modules on Sherlock, Tensorflow 1.7.0...

Job #10,000,000! 🎉

by Sherlock Team

Sherlock 2.0 has run its ten millionth job over the week-end! That's 10,000,000 jobs in a little over a year. Congratulations to everyone for supporting us and continuing to make Sherlock a great platform to support research!

New software modules

by Sherlock Team

If you haven't checked in a while, we're continuing to add more software modules on Sherlock 2.0. Among many others, the following additions will be of particular interest to the bioinformatics and genomics communities: star cufflinks...

Office hours have a new location!

by Sherlock Team

Starting Thursday, Feb. 15th, office hours will take place in room 255, Polya Hall. The hours stay the same: Tuesdays, 10am-11am, Polya 255 Thursdays, 3pm-4pm, Polya 255 See you there!

The first Sherlock order window for 2018 is open!

by Sherlock Team

The first buying window for Sherlock nodes is now open, and will go through Wednesday Jan 31, 2018. If you find Sherlock useful, would like to get even more work done on it, and become a member of the Sherlock's Owners Club, you now...