Kilian Cavalotti and Stéphane Thiell from Stanford Research Computing have been busy not quite - but almost - 7x24 not only answering user inquiries but making important improvements to the Sherlock cluster's storage infrastructure and primary filesystem. You can read all about their latest "scratch" work at https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu/posts/a-new-scratch and https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu/posts/more-scratch-space-for-everyone .