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
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
timestamp1612549200000Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP levelby Kilian CavalottiBlogDataHardwareWhen NFS problems turn out to be... not NFS problems at all.
timestamp1605226320001Sherlock factsby Kilian CavalottiDataImprovementEver 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...
timestamp1589822580001New Sherlock on-boarding sessionsby Kilian CavalottiOne 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...
timestamp1586876640001Sherlock is hard at work against COVID-19by Kilian CavalottiAbout 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...
timestamp1575415800001Adventures 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...
timestamp1575415800001A newer, faster and better /scratchby Kilian CavalottiAs 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...
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