Sherlock changelog

New purge policy on $SCRATCH

by Sherlock Team
After 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...
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Announce

Slurm version update

by Sherlock Team
Slurm has been updated to version 17.02.7. Full changelog is available here
Update

Search fix on the documentation website

by Sherlock Team
We're glad if you didn't notice, but in case you did, the Search feature on the documentation pages had some issues when searching for complete or capitalized words. It's all fixed now, so you can open the search box (a simple key press...
Fix

New $SHERLOCK environment variable

by Sherlock Team
As 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...
Improvement
New

GPUs now available on Sherlock 2.0

by Sherlock Team
The 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...
New
Hardware

Slurm update

by Sherlock Team
Slurm 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...
Update

Slurm update

by Sherlock Team
Slurm has been updated to version 17.02.4. Full changelog is available here
Update

New Slurm version

by Sherlock Team
Slurm has been updated to version 17.02.2. Main changes include: SSH sessions to the nodes while a job is running will now be correctly inherit the job limits quicker scheduling of interactive jobs support for PMIx job launcher Full...
Update

Sherlock 2.0 is here!

by Sherlock Team
We're very glad to announce that the long wait is finally over: Sherlock 2.0 is now available for testing! Currently available to a restricted group of users for beta-testing, the new cluster is expected to enter full production in the...
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