Office of Research Computing

Alerts

Biannual ORC Maintenance

The Hopper cluster will undergo biannual maintenance this January. Hopper will be unavailable between 6:00AM on Thursday, 01/16/2025 and the end of Friday, 01/17/2025 for scheduled maintenance. We plan to upgrade the compute, network, and storage infrastructure of the cluster during this maintenance window.    Maintenance Schedule:  – Start […]

Hopper and Argo Duo Multi-Factor Authentication Notice

To address compliance requirements and security threats, we are enabling Duo Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to minimize chances of unauthorized access to ORC resources and to […]

Scheduled Hopper and Argo Maintenance Downtime June 2 – 4, 2024 

Due to a scheduled data center power outage on Sunday 06/02/2024, ORC will start its biannual maintenance window to coincide with that to minimize future […]

Winter Break Support – important information.

Please be advised that George Mason University will be closed for Winter Break   Monday, December 19, 2022 – Monday, January 2, 2023.    During the break, […]

ORC resources suffering from widespread network disruption

Network access to ORC resources is currently disrupted due to configuration changes made to integrate new network infrastructure hardware.  The HOPPER and ARGO clusters, Virtual […]