Sherlock changelog

Scratch that: Sherlock now has 15 PB of flash

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Hardware
Announce
Data
We are excited to announce a major expansion of Sherlock's /scratch file system. We are adding 5 PB of full-flash storage, bringing the total capacity from 10 PB to 15 PB. This investment directly addresses the sustained capacity pressure

Free and private AI-assisted coding on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Documentation
Software
We're excited to announce a brand new section section in the Sherlock documentation, covering how to bring AI coding tools into your HPC workflows, for free, and without sending your code and data anywhere outside Stanford. Zed + Ollama:

Introducing SH4_G8TF64.1, now with 8x H200 GPUs

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Hardware
Announce
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of a powerful new node configuration to accelerate your GPU workloads on Sherlock: SH4_G8TF64.1. Featuring 8x NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, this new configuration delivers cutting-edge

An update about our plans to retire Sherlock 2.0

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Announce
Hardware
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
Software
We're pleased to announce the availability of Boltz-1, a new open-source molecular interactions AI model recently released by MIT.

Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
New
Announce
Hardware
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

A brand new Sherlock OnDemand experience

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Stanford Research Computing is proud to unveil Sherlock OnDemand 3.0, a cutting-edge enhancement to its computing and data storage resources, revolutionizing user interaction and efficiency.
Announce
Improvement

Final hours announced for the June 2023 SRCF downtime

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Maintenance
Announce
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

More free compute on Sherlock!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Announce
Hardware
Improvement
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