1679706261451 A 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
1667700685989 Job #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. JobID Partition Start ------------
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
1622751520986 A 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
1617408000000 3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestoneby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance Computing Hardware Event Sherlock is a traditional High-Performance Computing cluster in many aspects. But unlike most of similarly-sized clusters where hardware is purchased all at once, and refreshed every few years, it is in constant evolution. Almost like a
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
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,
1589227740001 Job #1by Kilian Cavalotti, If you’ve been submitting jobs on Sherlock over the last couple days, you probably noticed something different about your your job ids… They lost a couple digits! If you submitted a job last week, its job id was likely in the 67,000,000s.
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