Sherlock changelog

www.sherlock.stanford.edu

Storage quota units change: TB to TiB

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

Following in Oak footsteps, we’re excited to announce that Sherlock is adopting a new unit of measure for file system quotas. Starting today, we're transitioning from Terabytes (TB) to Tebibytes (TiB) for all storage allocations on

Sherlock goes full flash

by Stéphane Thiell & Kilian Cavalotti, Research Computing Team

What could be more frustrating than anxiously waiting for your computing job to finish? Slow I/O that makes it take even longer is certainly high on the list. But not anymore! Fir, Sherlock’s scratch file system, has just undergone a major

Sherlock goes full flash

A new tool to help optimize job resource requirements

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

It’s not always easy to determine the right amount of resources to request for a computing job. Making sure that the application will have enough resources to run properly, but avoiding over-requests that would make the jobs spend too much

Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

by Kilian Cavalotti

This is part of our technical blog series about things that happen behind-the-scenes on Sherlock, and which are part of our ongoing effort to keep it up and running in the best possible conditions for our beloved users. For quite a long

Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

Sherlock facts

by Kilian Cavalotti,

Ever 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 a

Sherlock facts

New Sherlock on-boarding sessions

by Kilian Cavalotti,

One 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,

Sherlock is hard at work against COVID-19

by Kilian Cavalotti,

About 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 their

Adventures in storage

by 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 can

A newer, faster and better /scratch

by Kilian Cavalotti,

As we just announced, Sherlock now features a brand new storage system for /scratch. But what was the old system, what does the new one look like, and how did the move happen? Read on to find out! The old Since its early days, Sherlock ran

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