Sherlock changelog

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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

A new tool to help optimize job resource requirements

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

It’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

SRCF is expanding

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

The Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF), where Sherlock is hosted, has been a highly effective data center since its opening in January of 2014, and demand has grown so much that we’re expanding it! Another identical building

SRCF is expanding

Job #1, again!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

This 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 ------------

A new interactive step in Slurm

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

A 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

3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestone

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance Computing

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

3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestone

Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

by Kilian Cavalotti

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

Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

New Sherlock on-boarding sessions

by 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,

Job #1

by 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.

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