Office of Research ComputingA maintenance period has been scheduled for Tuesday 1/19/2021 between 8 am and 11 am, during which it is planned that all ORC VMs and hosted servers will be patched and rebooted. There will necessarily be short periods, generally no longer than 15 minutes, during which the systems will be unavailable. If this maintenance would cause disruption to your work, then please let us know asap so that we can make the necessary adjustments.
The Argo Cluster will not be affected by this maintenance.
The University will break for the holidays on December 18th 2020, and normal working hours will resume on January 4th 2021. Account requests made after 12pm on December 18th will not be processed until January 4th. Staff will be monitoring email and help tickets and may be able to respond to urgent inquiries but please be aware this will be on a best effort basis. If you have concerns or questions please send email to orchelp@gmu.edu.
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ive racks of equipment from Dell for the Hopper cluster were delivered today to th
e Acquia Data Center. ORC staff will be hard at work in the coming weeks configuring and testing the ORC’s latest cluster.
The ORC’s newest cluster will be called “Hopper” in honor of the computing pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.
Unfortunately, a second maintenance outage will be required to complete essential powers infrastructure changes in the Data Center. Currently, this maintenance is scheduled for 8 am-5 pm on Sunday the 11th of October. The cluster will once again be drained, this means that jobs whose run time would overlap with the maintenance will be held until after the maintenance. You will be able to run jobs right up to the maintenance time by submitting with a time limit such that your job will not run past 8 am on Sunday the 11th of October 2020.
Please send an email to orchelp@gmu.edu with any questions or concerns.