Sherlock changelog

Final hours announced for the June 2023 SRCF downtime

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Maintenance
Announce
As previously announced, the Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF), where Sherlock is hosted, will be powered off during the last week of June, in order to safely bring up power to the new SRCF2 datacenter. Sherlock will not be

SRCF is expanding

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
Maintenance
The Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF), where Sherlock is hosted, has been a highly effective data center since its opening in January of 2014, and demand has grown so much that weโ€™re expanding it! Another identical building

Job #1, again!

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC
This is not the first time, weโ€™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. JobID Partition Start ------------
Event
Scheduler

3.3 PFlops: Sherlock hits expansion milestone

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

Job #1

by Kilian Cavalotti,
If youโ€™ve been submitting jobs on Sherlock over the last couple days, you probably noticed something different about your your job idsโ€ฆ They lost a couple digits! If you submitted a job last week, its job id was likely in the 67,000,000s.
Event
Scheduler

Next scheduled maintenance: Oct. 16

by Kilian Cavalotti,
In 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 8:00am
Maintenance

๐ŸŽ‰ Job #50,000,000!

by Kilian Cavalotti,
Event
We just wanted to share that Sherlock recently ran job #50,000,000! ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽ‰ This is a significant milestone since Sherlock, in its current form[1], started running its first job in January 2017. Fifty million jobs in less than 3 years is no

Next scheduled maintenance: Feb. 5

by Kilian Cavalotti,
Sherlock 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
Maintenance

Next scheduled maintenance: Nov. 28

by Kilian Cavalotti,
Sherlock will not be available on Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 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
Maintenance