almost 2 years agoA new tool to help optimize job resource requirementsby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCItβs not always easy to determine the right amount of resources to request for a computing job. Making sure that the application will have enough resources to run properly, but avoiding over-requests that would make the jobs spend too much
almost 2 years agoSRCF 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. Itβs expected to last about a week, and Sherlock will be unavailable during that time.
about 2 years agoJob #1, again!by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCThis is not the first time, weβve 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.
almost 4 years ago3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestoneby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance ComputingHardwareEventSherlock 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
over 4 years agoNew 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...
over 4 years agoJob #1by Kilian CavalottiIf 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...
over 5 years agoNext 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...
over 5 years agoπ Job #50,000,000!by Kilian CavalottiEventWe just wanted to share that Sherlock recently ran job #50,000,000! ππ This is a significant milestone since Sherlock, in its current form, started running its first job in January 2017. Fifty million jobs in less than 3 years is no...
about 6 years agoNext scheduled maintenance: Feb. 5by Kilian CavalottiSherlock will not be available on Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 from 8:00am to 6:00pm. System maintenance and upgrades will be performed during this time. Access to Sherlock will be unavailable, logins will be disabled and jobs won't run...