timestamp1683930644259Final hours announced for the June 2023 SRCF downtimeby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCMaintenanceAnnounceAs 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
timestamp1677204000000SRCF is expandingby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCMaintenanceIn order to bring up a new building that will increase data center capacity, a full SRCF power shutdown is planned for late June 2023. It’s expected to last about a week, and Sherlock will be unavailable during that time.
timestamp1612549200000Tracking NFS problems down to the SFP levelby Kilian CavalottiBlogDataHardwareWhen NFS problems turn out to be... not NFS problems at all.
timestamp1589822580001New Sherlock on-boarding sessionsby Kilian CavalottiOne 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...
timestamp1586876640001Sherlock is hard at work against COVID-19by Kilian CavalottiAbout 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...
timestamp1575415800001Adventures in storageby 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...
timestamp1571088180001Next scheduled maintenance: Oct. 16by Kilian CavalottiIn 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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