1679706261451A 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
1667700685989Job #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.
1622751520986A 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
16174080000003.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestoneby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance ComputingHardwareEventSherlock 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
1612549200000Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP levelby Kilian CavalottiBlogDataHardwareWhen NFS problems turn out to be... not NFS problems at all.
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