timestamp1635528575955Keep up to date with software updatesby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCTo help users stay on top of software changes on Sherlock, weβve recently introduced a new software updates RSS feed. Itβs available from the Sherlock software list page, and you can directly add it to your RSS reader of choice. And if
timestamp16174080000003.3 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
timestamp1589227740001Job #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...
timestamp1568310240001π 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...
timestamp1541457360001Persistent processes on Sherlockby Kilian CavalottiThere are many cases where having a persistent process (or service) running alongside computing jobs is of great benefit. For instance, when data is stored in a database format to allow for highly efficient queries, jobs that want to...
timestamp1539128040001Running containers on Sherlockby Kilian CavalottiDocumentationSoftwareHave you ever wanted to run Docker containers on Sherlock, and skip the hassle of figuring out your application dependencies, installing them, compiling the code, resolving compilation errors, finding missing libraries, or making sure...
timestamp1536359280001You can now subscribe to Sherlock news and updatesby Kilian CavalottiYou can now subscribe to Sherlock news and updates, and automatically receive an email notification when a new post is published here. To subscribe to Sherlock updates, follow the steps below: go to https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu...
timestamp1532122560001MySQL on Sherlockby Kilian CavalottiHave you ever wondered how you could use a database server on Sherlock? Or wanted to run jobs that query data from a SQL database? Or even better, multiple jobs that would interact with the same database? Have you ever wanted to store...
timestamp1526503380001Spark on Sherlockby Kilian CavalottiApache Spark is now available on Sherlock, via the spark module: $ ml spark We also added some new documentation and example job scripts, so if you ever needed to run Spark jobs on Sherlock, please take a look at those and let us know...