Research Computing in the News
Site news
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Faster Computing and Avoiding Slowdowns
A Few Best Data Practices on Oak and Sherlock
February 02, 2026
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Help Tickets Lost In January 22 Email Outage
If you sent a new ticket (or replied to an existing ticket) on Thursday, January 22, confirm that it is in your account on srcc.freshdesk.com. Resend any emails sent to srcc-support@stanford.edu.
January 23, 2026
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Sherlock 2.0 Compute Node Retirement and Supply Chain Issues
Sherlock 2.0 generation compute nodes will be retired on October 6, 2026. Learn more about hardware replacement, anticipated lead times, and increasing vendor costs.
January 09, 2026
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AI Coding Assistants on Sherlock
The SRC team has vetted and installed a handful of AI coding agents and other CLI (command-line interface) assistants. Here's an overview of the ones available on Sherlock now ...
January 06, 2026
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Graduate students: SC25 conference travel scholarship applications being accepted now
The Ewing "Rusty" Lusk scholarship provides registration + up to $1,600 to help graduate students attend November’s SC25 conference in St. Louis. (SIGHPC membership required.)
September 04, 2025
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FY26 Service Rate Changes
Beginning Sept. 1, 2025, rates for a few services provided by Stanford Research Computing will increase. You can view the changes on University IT’s Proposed FY26 Rate Change page.
July 28, 2025
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Consultant Profile: Mark Piercy
Research Computing’s primary liaison to the School of Humanities and Sciences and an HPC training instructor, Mark also leads new faculty onboarding and outreach.
February 11, 2025
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Stanford welcomes a new GPU-based supercomputer
Marlowe is Stanford’s new GPU-based computational instrument, managed by Stanford Data Science with hardware & software infrastructure administered by Stanford Research Computing.
December 16, 2024
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Facilitator Profile: Robby Rollins
In addition to his consulting duties, Robby Rollins has a formal data security role monitoring and assuring compliance on the Nero GCP and Carina High Risk Data systems.
December 09, 2024
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Sherlock 4.0: a new cluster generation
This major upgrade represents a significant leap forward in our computing capabilities, offering researchers unprecedented power and efficiency to drive their groundbreaking work.
September 19, 2024
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Consultant Profile: Mark Yoder
As principal liaison to the Doerr School of Sustainability, Mark applies systems thinking to optimize HPC resource usage and fine-tunes software to work on Sherlock and Nero GCP.
September 11, 2024
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Facilitator Profile: Brad Rittenhouse
While Brad’s current role at Stanford primarily revolves around assisting researchers and managing our fellowship program, he remains an active researcher and scholar himself.
June 04, 2024
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Consultant Profile: Christina Gancayco
With a consultative approach that's grounded in her history with — and understanding of — researchers' needs and objectives, Christina is always prepared to help.
June 04, 2024
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Researcher Profile: Annie K. Lamar
Data scientist Annie K. Lamar (Ph.D. 2024) looks back on her Summer 2023 experience as the inaugural Stanford Research Computing Humanities Research Fellow.
May 01, 2024
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Our Sherlock HPC cluster goes full flash
Fir, Sherlock’s scratch file system, has just undergone a major tech face-lift: it’s now a 10 PB all-flash storage system, providing an aggregate bandwidth of 400 GB/sec.
February 07, 2024
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Lunch & Learn and Other New Classes
The Research Computing team has rolled out a series of convenient 1-hour classes to help you master programming concepts on our Sherlock and FarmShare coding environments.
February 05, 2024
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January 29, 2024
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Sherlock researchers Molly Schummer and Ben Moran's work highlighted in recent Stanford Report article.
Sherlock researchers work reveals genes that ‘don’t play well together’ in swordtail fish hybrids, driving the development of distinct species.
January 17, 2024
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Globus Integration Improves Stanford Digital Repository’s Self-Deposit Experience
The new, more robust system streamlines data submission — benefitting users, SDR staff, and research reproducibility at Stanford.
October 16, 2023
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Hundreds of Commits: Stanford Research Computing Reflects on its Contributions to Open Source Software
Featuring 14 notable projects where our team members have met research computing needs while giving back to the open source community.
April 04, 2023