Sherlock changelog

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An update about our plans to retire Sherlock 2.0

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

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

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

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

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance

Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

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

Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation

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 4.0 is coming!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We are thrilled to announce that the next generation of Stanford's High-Performance Computing cluster is just around the corner. Mark your calendars for August 29, as we prepare to unveil Sherlock 4.0! Building on the success of previous

Sherlock 4.0 is coming!

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 brand new Sherlock OnDemand experience

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

Following a long tradition of announces and releases during the SuperComputing conference, and while SC23 is underway in Denver CO, Stanford Research Computing is proud to unveil Sherlock OnDemand 3.0, a cutting-edge enhancement to its

Instant lightweight GPU instances are now available

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We know that getting access to GPUs on Sherlock can be difficult and feel a little frustrating at times. Demand has been steadily growing, leading to long pending times, and waiting in line rarely feels great, especially when you have

Instant lightweight GPU instances are now available

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

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