timestamp1635528575955Keep up to date with software updatesby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCTo help users stay on top of software changes on Sherlock, we’ve recently introduced a new software updates RSS feed. It’s available from the Sherlock software list page, and you can directly add it to your RSS reader of choice. And if
timestamp1622751520986A new interactive step in Slurmby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCA new version of the sh_dev tool has been released, that leverages a recently-added Slurm feature. Slurm 20.11 introduced a new“interactive step”, designed to be used with salloc to automatically launch a terminal on an allocated compute
timestamp16174080000003.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestoneby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance ComputingHardwareEventSherlock is a traditional High-Performance Computing cluster in many aspects. But unlike most of similarly-sized clusters where hardware is purchased all at once, and refreshed every few years, it is in constant evolution. Almost like a
timestamp1612549200000Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP levelby Kilian CavalottiBlogDataHardwareWhen NFS problems turn out to be... not NFS problems at all.
timestamp1605226320001Sherlock factsby Kilian CavalottiDataImprovementEver wondered how many compute nodes is Sherlock made of? Or how many users are using it? Or how many Infiniband cables link it all together? Well, wonder no more: head to the Sherlock facts page and see for yourself! > hint: there are...
timestamp1589822580001New Sherlock on-boarding sessionsby Kilian CavalottiOne of the most requested improvements around Sherlock services, that came out of our recent user survey, was for more documentation and more training. This is why, to help new users get familiar with Sherlock's computing environment...
timestamp1589227740001Job #1by Kilian CavalottiIf you've been submitting jobs on Sherlock over the last couple days, you probably noticed something different about your your job ids... They lost a couple digits! If you submitted a job last week, its job id was likely in the 67,000...
timestamp1586876640001Sherlock is hard at work against COVID-19by Kilian CavalottiAbout a month ago, we announced that we were dedicating a portion of Sherlock's computing resources to research projects around COVID-19. Since then, more than 15 PIs and research groups have reached out to share their projects, and...
timestamp1575415800001Adventures in storageby Kilian Cavalotti_This is part of our blog series about behind-the-scenes things we do on a regular basis on Sherlock, to keep it up and running in the best possible conditions for our users. Now that Sherlock's old storage system has been retired, we...
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