Sherlock changelog

www.sherlock.stanford.edu

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

Job #1, again!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

This is not the first time, we’ve 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.

A new interactive step in Slurm

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

A new version of the sh_dev tool has been released, that leverages a recently-added Slurm feature. Slurm 20.11 introduced a new“interactive step”, designed to be used with salloc to automatically launch a terminal on an allocated compute

Your Sherlock prompt just got a little smarter

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

Have you ever felt confused when running things on Sherlock and wondered if your current shell was part of a job? And if so, which one? Well, maybe you noticed it already, but we’ve deployed a small improvement to the Sherlock shell prompt

3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestone

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance Computing

Sherlock 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

3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestone

Sherlock facts

by Kilian Cavalotti

Ever wondered how many compute nodes is Sherlock made of? Or how many users are using it? Or how many Infiniband cables link it all together? Well, wonder no more: head to the Sherlock facts page and see for yourself! > hint: there are...

Sherlock facts

New GPU options in the Sherlock catalog

by Kilian Cavalotti

Today, we're introducing the latest generation of GPU accelerators in the Sherlock catalog: the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU. Each A100 GPU features 9.7 TFlops of double-precision (FP64) performance, up to 312 TFlops for deep-learning...

New Sherlock on-boarding sessions

by Kilian Cavalotti

One 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...