10 days agoIntroducing Boltz-1 on Sherlockby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCSoftwareWe're pleased to announce the availability of Boltz-1, a new open-source molecular interactions AI model recently released by MIT.
4 months agoStorage quota units change: TB to TiBby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCFollowing 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
11 months agoSherlock goes full flashby Stéphane Thiell & Kilian Cavalotti, Research Computing TeamDataHardwareImprovementWhat 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
about 1 year agoA brand new Sherlock OnDemand experienceby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCStanford 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.
over 1 year agoFinal hours announced for the June 2023 SRCF downtimeby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCMaintenanceAnnounceAs 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
almost 2 years agoA new tool to help optimize job resource requirementsby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCIt’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
almost 2 years agoSRCF is expandingby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCMaintenanceIn order to bring up a new building that will increase data center capacity, a full SRCF power shutdown is planned for late June 2023. It’s expected to last about a week, and Sherlock will be unavailable during that time.
about 2 years agoMore free compute on Sherlock!by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCAnnounceHardwareImprovementWe’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
about 2 years agoClusterShell on Sherlockby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCSoftwareNewEver wondered how your jobs were doing while they were running? Keeping a eye on a log file is nice, but what if you could quickly gather process lists, usage metrics and other data points from all the nodes your multi-node jobs are running