timestamp1503686520001Cron jobs on Sherlockby Sherlock TeamCron jobs are not supported on Sherlock, and going forward they won't be allowed anymore. Due to various past incidents, we had to disable the functionality, to prevent runaway cron jobs to take out entire login nodes. Moreover, compute...
timestamp1502831300000Slurm version updateby Sherlock TeamSlurm has been updated to version 17.02.7. Full changelog is available here
timestamp1501532520001New $SHERLOCK environment variableby Sherlock TeamAs users start trying out their job submission and application scripts on Sherlock 2.0, we figured it would be useful to easily determine on which platform those scripts are running. So we've added a new $SHERLOCK environment variable...
timestamp1499466600001New Lustre routers in productionby Sherlock TeamTwo new Lustre routers have been put in production on Sherlock 2.0, one to serve /scratch, and the other one to serve /oak. Immediate benefits will be higher availability of the filesystems on Sherlock 2.0 clients, and doubled bandwidth...
timestamp1498171334000Slurm updateby Sherlock TeamSlurm has been updated to version 17.02.5. The full changelog is available here. Of particular interest is a fix for a problem that affected users submitting jobs to multiple partitions on Sherlock 2.0, and who could receive errors...
timestamp1496870220000Slurm updateby Sherlock TeamSlurm has been updated to version 17.02.4. Full changelog is available here
timestamp1491524385000New Slurm versionby Sherlock TeamSlurm has been updated to version 17.02.2. Main changes include: SSH sessions to the nodes while a job is running will now be correctly inherit the job limits quicker scheduling of interactive jobs support for PMIx job launcher Full...
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