Sherlock changelog

Sherlock goes container-native

by Kilian Cavalotti
Software
Improvement
Announce
In recognition of the fast-moving software landscape and the emerging needs of our users, we're pleased to announce, from the SC18 Supercomputing conference in Dallas, TX, that Sherlock is going container-native. Starting today, users...

Hours announced for the SRCF shutdown

by Kilian Cavalotti
Announce
Maintenance
As previously announced, the Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF) will undergo major power maintenance over the Labor Day week-end (Sep. 1-3, 2018). Because it's hosted in that datacenter, Sherlock will not be available for login...

Sherlock now welcomes lab-contributed software

by Kilian Cavalotti
Have you ever spent hours compiling and tuning software, put together a complex workflow combining multiple software parts, or just installed the latest version of the brand new software tools you're developing on Sherlock? And wondered...
Software
Announce
New

Farewell Sherlock 1.0 👋

by Kilian Cavalotti
Retiring Sherlock 1.0 The day has come to say goodbye to Sherlock 1.0. After almost 4 years of service, the Sherlock 1.0 environment has definitely been retired. Starting today, when you connect to the Sherlock 1.0 login nodes (with...
Announce

SRCF Reboot

by Kilian Cavalotti
A shutdown of the Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF) is planned for Labor Day weekend, Saturday through Monday, September 1-3, due to the need for power system maintenance. We will bring Sherlock down on Friday evening, August...
Announce
Maintenance

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...
Announce

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...
Announce

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...
Announce

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!
Announce