Sherlock changelog

Sherlock changelog

www.sherlock.stanford.edu

Storage quota units change: TB to TiB

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Following in Oak footsteps, we’re excited to announce that Sherlock is adopting a new unit of measure for file system quotas. Starting today, we're transitioning from Terabytes (TB) to Tebibytes (TiB) for all storage allocations on
Improvement
Data

Sherlock 4.0 is coming!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
New
Hardware
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
Data
Hardware
Improvement
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

A brand new Sherlock OnDemand experience

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Stanford Research Computing is proud to unveil Sherlock OnDemand 3.0, a cutting-edge enhancement to its computing and data storage resources, revolutionizing user interaction and efficiency.
Announce
Improvement

Instant lightweight GPU instances are now available

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
New
Hardware
We know that getting access to GPUs on Sherlock can be difficult and feel a little frustrating at times. Which is why we are excited to announce the immediate availability of our new instant lightweight GPU instances!
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
Documentation
Scheduler
Improvement

More free compute on Sherlock!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Announce
Hardware
Improvement
We’re thrilled to announce that the free and generally available normal partition on Sherlock is getting an upgrade! With the addition of 24 brand new SH3_CBASE.1 compute nodes, each featuring one AMD EPYC 7543 Milan 32-core CPU and 256 GB
More free compute on Sherlock!

ClusterShell on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Software
New
Ever wondered how your jobs were doing while they were running? Keeping a eye on a log file is nice, but what if you could quickly gather process lists, usage metrics and other data points from all the nodes your multi-node jobs are running
ClusterShell on Sherlock

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
Software
Update