1724721093939 Storage 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
1707349764699 Sherlock goes full flashby 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
1635528575955 Keep 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
1612549200000 Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP levelby Kilian Cavalotti Blog Data Hardware This is part of our technical blog series about things that happen behind-the-scenes on Sherlock, and which are part of our ongoing effort to keep it up and running in the best possible conditions for our beloved users. For quite a long
1605226320001 Sherlock factsby Kilian Cavalotti, Data Improvement 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 a
1589822580001 New Sherlock on-boarding sessionsby Kilian Cavalotti, One of the most requested improvements around Sherlock services, that came out of our recent user survey, was for more documentation and more training. This is why, to help new users get familiar with Sherlock's computing environment,
1586876640001 Sherlock is hard at work against COVID-19by 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 their
1575415800001 Adventures in storageby 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 can
1575415800001 A newer, faster and better /scratchby 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 ran
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