Sherlock changelog

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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

SRCF is expanding

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

The Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF), where Sherlock is hosted, has been a highly effective data center since its opening in January of 2014, and demand has grown so much that we’re expanding it! Another identical building

SRCF is expanding

Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

by Kilian Cavalotti

This is part of our technical blog series about things that happen behind-the-scenes on Sherlock, and which are part of our ongoing effort to keep it up and running in the best possible conditions for our beloved users. For quite a long

Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP level

New Sherlock on-boarding sessions

by Kilian Cavalotti,

One of the most requested improvements around Sherlock services, that came out of our recent user survey, was for more documentation and more training. This is why, to help new users get familiar with Sherlock's computing environment,

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 their

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 can

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 8:00am

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

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

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