Sherlock changelog

www.sherlock.stanford.edu

An update about our plans to retire Sherlock 2.0

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We wanted to share an important update about the future of some of Sherlock’s oldest compute nodes, in light of some of the more recent and worsening political and economic conditions. As many of you know, we had planned to retire the

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We’re proud to announce that Sherlock has reached another significant performance milestone. Building on past successes, Sherlock continues to evolve and expand, integrating new technologies and enhancing its capabilities to meet the

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance

Introducing Boltz-1 on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We've received numerous inquiries about the availability of AlphaFold3 on Sherlock, and we understand the excitement surrounding this groundbreaking tool. AlphaFold, developed by DeepMind, revolutionized protein structure prediction and

Introducing Boltz-1 on Sherlock

Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We 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

Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation

Sherlock 4.0 is coming!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We 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

Sherlock 4.0 is coming!

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

Instant lightweight GPU instances are now available

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We know that getting access to GPUs on Sherlock can be difficult and feel a little frustrating at times. Demand has been steadily growing, leading to long pending times, and waiting in line rarely feels great, especially when you have

Instant lightweight GPU instances are now available

More free compute on Sherlock!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

We’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

More free compute on Sherlock!

ClusterShell on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

Ever 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

ClusterShell on Sherlock

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