Sherlock changelog

Spark on Sherlock

by Kilian Cavalotti
Apache Spark is now available on Sherlock, via the spark module: $ ml spark We also added some new documentation and example job scripts, so if you ever needed to run Spark jobs on Sherlock, please take a look at those and let us know...
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Sherlock welcomes Volta

by Sherlock Team
The Sherlock 2.0 cluster now features the latest generation of GPU accelerators: the NVIDIA Tesla V100. Each V100 GPU features 7.8 TFlops of double-precision (FP64) performance, up to 125 TFlops for deep-learning applications, 16GB of...
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Hardware

New software modules

by Sherlock Team
If 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...
Software
New

GPU compute modes

by Sherlock Team
We 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...
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New

New login nodes

by Sherlock Team
Two 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...
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Hardware
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RSS feed

by Sherlock Team
To make it even easier to follow news and updates, the Sherlock Changelog now supports RSS feeds! Just add the following URL to your favorite RSS reader: > https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu/feeds and be sure to never miss an update...
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Announce

Cron jobs on Sherlock

by Sherlock Team
Cron jobs are not supported on Sherlock, and going forward they won't be allowed anymore. Due to various past incidents, we had to disable the functionality, to prevent runaway cron jobs to take out entire login nodes. Moreover, compute...
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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

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...
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