timestamp1724721093939Storage 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
timestamp1707349764699Sherlock 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
timestamp1679706261451A 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
timestamp1670036242756ClusterShell 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
timestamp1667700685989Job #1, again!by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCThis 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.
timestamp1635528575955Keep up to date with software updatesby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCTo 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
timestamp1622751520986A new interactive step in Slurmby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCA new version of the sh_dev tool has been released, that leverages a recently-added Slurm feature. Slurm 20.11 introduced a new“interactive step”, designed to be used with salloc to automatically launch a terminal on an allocated compute
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