Sherlock changelog

www.sherlock.stanford.edu

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Keep up to date with software updates

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

To 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

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Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

by Kilian Cavalotti

When NFS problems turn out to be... not NFS problems at all.

Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

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Sherlock is hard at work against COVID-19

by 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...

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Adventures in storage

by 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...

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Next scheduled maintenance: Oct. 16

by Kilian Cavalotti

In order to prepare future improvements of the parallel /scratch file system, as well as performing some required work on the scheduler, Sherlock will not be available during the following times: Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 - from 8...

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When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup

by Kilian Cavalotti

Today, we'd like to share some of our recent work on Sherlock that allowed a pretty significant speedup when listing files in directories with a lot of entries. > Unlike our usual announcements, this post is more of a behind-the-scenes...

When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup

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Next scheduled maintenance: Feb. 5

by Kilian Cavalotti

Sherlock will not be available on Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 from 8:00am to 6:00pm. System maintenance and upgrades will be performed during this time. Access to Sherlock will be unavailable, logins will be disabled and jobs won't run...

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Next scheduled maintenance: Nov. 28

by Kilian Cavalotti

Sherlock will not be available on Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 from 8:00am to 6:00pm. System maintenance and upgrades will be performed during this time. Access to Sherlock will be unavailable, logins will be disabled and jobs won't...

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Persistent processes on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti

There are many cases where having a persistent process (or service) running alongside computing jobs is of great benefit. For instance, when data is stored in a database format to allow for highly efficient queries, jobs that want to...