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

Back to job #1, thrice

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Not once, not twice, but three times! For the third time in Sherlock’s history, the Slurm job ID counter was reset over the weekend, and went from job #67,043,327 all the way back to job #1! JobIDRaw Partition
Event
Scheduler

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Hardware
Event
We’re proud to announce that Sherlock has reached another significant performance milestone. Building on past successes, Sherlock continues to evolve and expand, integrating new technologies and enhancing its capabilities to meet the

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
Improvement
Data

Sherlock goes full flash

by Stéphane Thiell & Kilian Cavalotti, Research Computing Team
Data
Hardware
Improvement
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

Job #1, again!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
This is not the first time, we’ve been through this already (not so long ago, actually) but today, the Slurm job id counter was reset and went from job #67043327 back to job #1.
Event
Scheduler

Keep up to date with software updates

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
To 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
Software
Update

3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestone

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance Computing
Hardware
Event
Sherlock 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

Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

by Kilian Cavalotti
Blog
Data
Hardware
When NFS problems turn out to be... not NFS problems at all.