over 5 years ago
🎉 Job #50,000,000!
by Kilian Cavalotti
We just wanted to share that Sherlock recently ran job #50,000,000! 🎈🎉 This is a significant milestone since Sherlock, in its current form, started running its first job in January 2017. Fifty million jobs in less than 3 years is no...![🎉 Job #50,000,000!](https://storage.noticeable.io/projects/bYyIewUV308AvkMztxix/publications/0VGmhxExlhEdyc2FPc6F/01h55ta3gsg057ss6hbw6ptty1-featured-image.jpg)
almost 6 years ago
A better view at Sherlock's resources
by Kilian Cavalotti
How many jobs are running? What partitions do I have access to? How many CPUs can I use? Where should I submit my jobs? Any of those sound familiar? We know it's not always easy to navigate the native scheduler tools, their syntax, and...![A better view at Sherlock's resources](https://storage.noticeable.io/projects/bYyIewUV308AvkMztxix/publications/Z7dki2n3MCcR1PgBRsG2/01h55ta3gsdrhvkvq03vxnpkxn-featured-image.jpg)
almost 6 years ago
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](https://storage.noticeable.io/projects/bYyIewUV308AvkMztxix/publications/NzP6xovbLvQykEjMv50V/01h55ta3gsr2nqgjfjqdre57je-featured-image.jpg)
about 6 years ago
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...over 6 years ago
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...over 6 years ago
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...over 6 years ago
Better error messages when submitting jobs
by Kilian Cavalotti
Sherlock now offers a better and more complete explanation when a job submission is rejected by the scheduler. What does it look like? In the most common cases, jobs that don't meet the requirements for the partition they're submitted...over 6 years ago
Hours announced for the SRCF shutdown
by Kilian Cavalotti
As previously announced, the Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF) will undergo major power maintenance over the Labor Day week-end (Sep. 1-3, 2018). Because it's hosted in that datacenter, Sherlock will not be available for login...![Hours announced for the SRCF shutdown](https://storage.noticeable.io/projects/bYyIewUV308AvkMztxix/publications/oi33sJZ3gicHnUEF5rP4/01h55ta3gs02pet3a8dzkc4rf6-featured-image.jpg)
over 6 years ago
High priority QOS for owners
by Kilian Cavalotti
Today, we're introducing a new high-priority QOS for owner partitions. In groups which have purchased their own compute nodes on Sherlock, users can now submit jobs to their group partition using the --qos=high_p option: it will give...