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New software modules
by Sherlock Team
If you haven't checked in a while, we're continuing to add more software modules on Sherlock 2.0. Among many others, the following additions will be of particular interest to the bioinformatics and genomics communities: star cufflinks...timestamp1516423740001
GPU compute modes
by Sherlock Team
We developed a new extension to allow users to change the compute mode of the GPUs allocated to their jobs. By default, GPUs are set in the "Exclusive Process" mode for best performance and ensure that only one process can use the GPU...timestamp1513709940001
New login nodes
by Sherlock Team
Two new login nodes, sh-ln03 and sh-ln04 are now available to connect to Sherlock 2.0. They've been added to the load-balanced DNS pool and will automatically be selected according to their load and the number of currently logged-in...timestamp1503520560001
New purge policy on $SCRATCH
by Sherlock Team
After holding up for a long time, we're implementing a new expiration policy for all files stored in $SCRATCH and $PI_SCRATCH on Sherlock. Starting October 1st 2017, all files in $SCRATCH and $PISCRATCH that have not been modified...timestamp1502831300000
Slurm version update
by Sherlock Team
Slurm has been updated to version 17.02.7. Full changelog is available heretimestamp1501688602000
Search fix on the documentation website
by Sherlock Team
We're glad if you didn't notice, but in case you did, the Search feature on the documentation pages had some issues when searching for complete or capitalized words. It's all fixed now, so you can open the search box (a simple key press...timestamp1501532520001
New $SHERLOCK environment variable
by Sherlock Team
As 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...timestamp1501262700001
GPUs now available on Sherlock 2.0
by Sherlock Team
The 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...timestamp1498171334000
Slurm update
by Sherlock Team
Slurm has been updated to version 17.02.5. The full changelog is available here. Of particular interest is a fix for a problem that affected users submitting jobs to multiple partitions on Sherlock 2.0, and who could receive errors...
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