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Mason’s Office of Research Computing (ORC) coordinates and supports the computing-related needs of the university’s research community. Follow the link for a list of key services and resources the ORC offers.

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HOPPER Cluster Summer Maintenance

Posted: July 13, 2026

The Hopper cluster will undergo biannual maintenance this July. Hopper will be unavailable between 6:00AM on Monday, 07/13/2026 and the end of Wednesday, 07/15/2026 for scheduled maintenance. We plan to upgrade the compute, network, and storage infrastructure of the cluster during this maintenance window.     Maintenance Schedule:    – Start Time: Monday July 13th, 6:00AM    – […]

ORC Spring 2026 Workshops – Inro to AI/ML Workflows on Hopper

Posted: March 3, 2026

The ORC workshop for this week on Thursday, 03/05/2026, will be on managing AI/ML pipelines on the Hopper Cluster covering topics including Slurm, examples with […]

The mission of the Office of Research Computing is to coordinate and support the computing-related needs of the university’s research community. The goal of this website is to provide a summary of and pointers to the many aspects of research computing, including hardware and software resources, pre- and post-award support, and facilitation of multi-university research projects.