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

Sherlock goes full flash

by Stéphane Thiell & Kilian Cavalotti, Research Computing Team

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

Job #1, again!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

This is not the first time, we’ve been through this already (not so long ago, actually) but today, the Slurm job id counter was reset and went from job #67043327 back to job #1. JobID Partition Start ------------

3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestone

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance Computing

Sherlock is a traditional High-Performance Computing cluster in many aspects. But unlike most of similarly-sized clusters where hardware is purchased all at once, and refreshed every few years, it is in constant evolution. Almost like a

3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestone

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 facts

by Kilian Cavalotti,

Ever wondered how many compute nodes is Sherlock made of? Or how many users are using it? Or how many Infiniband cables link it all together? Well, wonder no more: head to the Sherlock facts page and see for yourself! > hint: there are a

Sherlock facts

Job #1

by Kilian Cavalotti,

If you’ve been submitting jobs on Sherlock over the last couple days, you probably noticed something different about your your job ids… They lost a couple digits! If you submitted a job last week, its job id was likely in the 67,000,000s.

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

A newer, faster and better /scratch

by Kilian Cavalotti,

As we just announced, Sherlock now features a brand new storage system for /scratch. But what was the old system, what does the new one look like, and how did the move happen? Read on to find out! The old Since its early days, Sherlock ran

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