Sherlock changelog

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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

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

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