Sherlock changelog

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SRCF is expanding

by Kilian Cavalotti, Technical Lead & Architect, HPC

In order to bring up a new building that will increase data center capacity, a full SRCF power shutdown is planned for late June 2023. It’s expected to last about a week, and Sherlock will be unavailable during that time.

SRCF is expanding

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

Job #1

by Kilian Cavalotti

If you've been submitting jobs on Sherlock over the last couple days, you probably noticed something different about your your job ids... They lost a couple digits! If you submitted a job last week, its job id was likely in the 67,000...

More (and easier!) GPU scheduling options

by Kilian Cavalotti

GPU scheduling is now easier and more powerful on Sherlock, with the addition of new job submission options especially targeted at GPU workloads. The most visible change is that you can now use the --gpus option when submitting jobs...

More (and easier!) GPU scheduling options

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...

A better view at Sherlock's resources

by Kilian Cavalotti

How many jobs are running? What partitions do I have access to? How many CPUs can I use? Where should I submit my jobs? Any of those sound familiar? We know it's not always easy to navigate the native scheduler tools, their syntax, and...

A better view at Sherlock's resources

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 run...

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...