3 months agoIntroducing Boltz-1 on Sherlockby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCSoftwareWe're pleased to announce the availability of Boltz-1, a new open-source molecular interactions AI model recently released by MIT.
7 months agoSherlock 4.0: a new cluster generationby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCNewAnnounceHardwareWe are thrilled to announce that Sherlock 4.0, the fourth generation of Stanford's High-Performance Computing cluster, is now live! This major upgrade represents a significant leap forward in our computing capabilities, offering researchers
7 months agoSherlock 4.0 is coming!by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCNewHardwareWe are thrilled to announce that the next generation of Stanford's High-Performance Computing cluster is just around the corner. Mark your calendars for August 29, as we prepare to unveil Sherlock 4.0! Building on the success of previous
about 1 year agoSherlock goes full flashby Stéphane Thiell & Kilian Cavalotti, Research Computing TeamDataHardwareImprovementWhat 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
almost 2 years agoInstant lightweight GPU instances are now availableby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCNewHardwareWe know that getting access to GPUs on Sherlock can be difficult and feel a little frustrating at times. Which is why we are excited to announce the immediate availability of our new instant lightweight GPU instances!
almost 2 years agoA new tool to help optimize job resource requirementsby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCIt’s 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
over 2 years agoMore free compute on Sherlock!by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCAnnounceHardwareImprovementWe’re thrilled to announce that the free and generally available normal partition on Sherlock is getting an upgrade! With the addition of 24 brand new SH3_CBASE.1 compute nodes, each featuring one AMD EPYC 7543 Milan 32-core CPU and 256 GB
over 2 years agoClusterShell on Sherlockby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCSoftwareNewEver wondered how your jobs were doing while they were running? Keeping a eye on a log file is nice, but what if you could quickly gather process lists, usage metrics and other data points from all the nodes your multi-node jobs are running
over 3 years agoFrom Rome to Milan, a Sherlock catalog updateby Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPCAnnounceHardwareIt’s been almost a year and a half since we first introduced Sherlock 3.0 and its major new features: brand new CPU model and manufacturer, 2x faster interconnect, much larger and faster node-local storage, and more! We’ve now reached an