Sherlock changelog

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An update about our plans to retire Sherlock 2.0

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We wanted to share an important update about the future of some of Sherlock’s oldest compute nodes, in light of some of the more recent and worsening political and economic conditions. As many of you know, we had planned to retire the

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We’re proud to announce that Sherlock has reached another significant performance milestone. Building on past successes, Sherlock continues to evolve and expand, integrating new technologies and enhancing its capabilities to meet the

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance

Introducing Boltz-1 on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We've received numerous inquiries about the availability of AlphaFold3 on Sherlock, and we understand the excitement surrounding this groundbreaking tool. AlphaFold, developed by DeepMind, revolutionized protein structure prediction and

Introducing Boltz-1 on Sherlock

Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We are thrilled to announce that Sherlock 4.0, the fourth generation of Stanford's High-Performance Computing cluster, is now live! This major upgrade represents a significant leap forward in our computing capabilities, offering researchers

Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation

Sherlock 4.0 is coming!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We are thrilled to announce that the next generation of Stanford's High-Performance Computing cluster is just around the corner. Mark your calendars for August 29, as we prepare to unveil Sherlock 4.0! Building on the success of previous

Sherlock 4.0 is coming!

Sherlock goes full flash

by Stéphane Thiell & Kilian Cavalotti, Research Computing Team

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

Sherlock goes full flash

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

Instant lightweight GPU instances are now available

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We know that getting access to GPUs on Sherlock can be difficult and feel a little frustrating at times. Demand has been steadily growing, leading to long pending times, and waiting in line rarely feels great, especially when you have

Instant lightweight GPU instances are now available

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

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