Updates
News, milestones, and system updates from the Marlowe team.
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Feb 20, 2026maintenance
Planned Maintenance Window: February 24-25
Marlowe will undergo scheduled maintenance on February 24-25 for firmware updates and network fabric optimization. The maintenance window is expected to last approximately 8 hours. Running jobs will be checkpointed where possible, and the scheduling queue will drain starting February...
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Feb 15, 2026talks seminars
GPU Hackathon Series Announced with Doerr School
In partnership with the Doerr School of Sustainability, Marlowe is launching a GPU hackathon series designed to help research groups go from zero to multi-node training. The hands-on workshops will provide dedicated Marlowe time, expert guidance from Research Data Scientists,...
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Feb 10, 2026talks seminars
Marlowe Seminar Series: Scaling Research with GPUs
The Marlowe team hosted the first event in a new seminar series focused on GPU-accelerated research at Stanford. Presentations covered multi-node training best practices, InfiniBand optimization, and case studies from Cycle 4 researchers who scaled their workflows from single-GPU to...
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Feb 7, 2026research milestone
Milestone: 80-Billion-Parameter Brain Model Validated on Marlowe
Professor Dan Yamins’ team completed a proof-of-concept hero run on Marlowe, validating that an 80-billion-parameter brain-inspired neural network can train at scale across 24 nodes (192 H100 GPUs). The 24-hour run achieved 45% model FLOPS utilization (MFU), confirming that capability-scale...
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Feb 6, 2026system status
Cycle 5 Allocations Begin
Marlowe’s fifth allocation cycle has officially launched, with allocations awarded to research groups across seven Stanford schools. Cycle 5 represents the largest allocation round to date, with multiple groups receiving 8+ node allocations for foundation model training. New in Cycle...
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Dec 15, 2024press
Stanford Welcomes First GPU-Based Supercomputer
Stanford Report published a feature story on Marlowe, Stanford’s first GPU-based supercomputer. The article covers Marlowe’s role in democratizing frontier AI research at the university, making capabilities previously available only to industry accessible to faculty across seven schools. Read the...