timestamp1503686520001Cron jobs on Sherlockby Sherlock TeamCron jobs are not supported on Sherlock, and going forward they won't be allowed anymore. Due to various past incidents, we had to disable the functionality, to prevent runaway cron jobs to take out entire login nodes. Moreover, compute...
timestamp1501532520001New $SHERLOCK environment variableby Sherlock TeamAs users start trying out their job submission and application scripts on Sherlock 2.0, we figured it would be useful to easily determine on which platform those scripts are running. So we've added a new $SHERLOCK environment variable...
timestamp1501262700001GPUs now available on Sherlock 2.0by Sherlock TeamThe new gpu partition has just been open for production on Sherlock 2.0. It currently features two kinds of accelerators: NVIDIA Tesla P100-PCIe GPUs, for applications requiring double-precision (64-bit) and deep-learning training...
timestamp1499466600001New Lustre routers in productionby Sherlock TeamTwo new Lustre routers have been put in production on Sherlock 2.0, one to serve /scratch, and the other one to serve /oak. Immediate benefits will be higher availability of the filesystems on Sherlock 2.0 clients, and doubled bandwidth...