almost 7 years agoNew software modulesby Sherlock TeamIf you haven't checked in a while, we're continuing to add more software modules on Sherlock 2.0. Among many others, the following additions will be of particular interest to the bioinformatics and genomics communities: star cufflinks...
almost 7 years agoGPU compute modesby Sherlock TeamWe developed a new extension to allow users to change the compute mode of the GPUs allocated to their jobs. By default, GPUs are set in the "Exclusive Process" mode for best performance and ensure that only one process can use the GPU...
about 7 years agoNew login nodesby Sherlock TeamTwo new login nodes, sh-ln03 and sh-ln04 are now available to connect to Sherlock 2.0. They've been added to the load-balanced DNS pool and will automatically be selected according to their load and the number of currently logged-in...
over 7 years agoNew purge policy on $SCRATCHby Sherlock TeamAfter holding up for a long time, we're implementing a new expiration policy for all files stored in $SCRATCH and $PI_SCRATCH on Sherlock. Starting October 1st 2017, all files in $SCRATCH and $PISCRATCH that have not been modified...
over 7 years agoSlurm version updateby Sherlock TeamSlurm has been updated to version 17.02.7. Full changelog is available here
over 7 years agoNew $SHERLOCK environment variableby Sherlock TeamAs users start trying out their job submission and application scripts on Sherlock 2.0, we figured it would be useful to easily determine on which platform those scripts are running. So we've added a new $SHERLOCK environment variable...
over 7 years agoGPUs now available on Sherlock 2.0by Sherlock TeamThe new gpu partition has just been open for production on Sherlock 2.0. It currently features two kinds of accelerators: NVIDIA Tesla P100-PCIe GPUs, for applications requiring double-precision (64-bit) and deep-learning training...
over 7 years agoSlurm updateby Sherlock TeamSlurm has been updated to version 17.02.5. The full changelog is available here. Of particular interest is a fix for a problem that affected users submitting jobs to multiple partitions on Sherlock 2.0, and who could receive errors...
over 7 years agoSlurm updateby Sherlock TeamSlurm has been updated to version 17.02.4. Full changelog is available here