Sherlock changelog

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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

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Final hours announced for the June 2023 SRCF downtime

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

As 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

Final hours announced for the June 2023 SRCF downtime

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SRCF is expanding

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

In 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.

SRCF is expanding

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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

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Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

by Kilian Cavalotti

When NFS problems turn out to be... not NFS problems at all.

Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

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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...

Sherlock facts

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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...

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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...

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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...