The ORC will be at the PEARC22 Conference in Boston, MA between 07/10/2022 and 07/15/2022. While the ORC clusters are expected to be up and running as always, researchers using the cluster are advised that any tickets/questions filed in the week of the conference will likely have a delayed response.

Regular Tutorials Suspended for the PEARC22 Conference Week

At the same time, the regularly held user tutorials on Tuesdays and Thursdays for  those that have recently requested new cluster accounts will be suspended to be resumed on the week of 7/18/2022.

We are proud to announce the founding of Virginia’s first Women in High-Performance Computing (VA-WHPC) program. Join us for our first event of 2022: Female research leaders of the Commonwealth sharing and discussing how HPC has facilitated their scientific research and professional careers.

Topic: How does HPC help with your scientific research — Faculty perspectives, Part II

Featured Speakers:

• Anne Brown – Virginia Tech

An Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Science Informatics Consultant and Health Analytics Coordinator at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include utilizing computational modeling to answer biological questions and aid in drug discovery and the application of computational molecular modeling to elucidate the relationship between structure, function, and dynamics of bio-molecules.

• Jenna Cann – George Mason University

A postdoctoral fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Jenna received a PhD in Physics from George Mason University. Her research focuses on studying black holes in dwarf and low metallicity galaxies, in an effort to constrain the origins of supermassive black holes that can be up to billions of times the mass of our Sun. To do this, they use both theoretical modeling with the Cloudy spectral simulation code and infrared and X-ray observations to determine the most effective ways to find these elusive objects. Jenna currently serves as a co-officer in the NASA Goddard Association for Postdoctoral and Early Career Scholars (NGAPS+) and was a co-founder of the GMU Physics and Astronomy department’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) organization, SPECTRUM.

• Alexis Edwards – Virginia Commonwealth University

An Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research focuses on understanding the etiology of substance use disorders, suicidal behavior, and internalizing problems, including how these outcomes are related to one another.

Time:    Jan 25, 2022 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Thank you for your patience.

I am happy to announce that both the ARGO and HOPPER clusters are available now.

Any jobs that were pending or running on January 3^rd, will have to be resubmitted.

Users will likely notice the biggest changes in the ARGO cluster as the contributor partition on this cluster has been updated to match the contrib queue policies of HOPPER.  We will shortly post more detailed information about this on this site and also circulate it on the mailing list.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

ARGO and HOPPER down time extended through Monday Jan 10th

Due to unforeseen problems with building access and weather this past week, regrettably our work schedule has been forced to slip.  We now plan to make the clusters available at 5pm on Monday the 10^th of January. We apologize for the additional inconvenience.   As usual, please contact [email protected] with any questions or concerns

Holiday Greetings

George Mason University and the ORC will be closed for the winter break from end of day Dec 17th 2021 until January 3rd 2022. During this time there will be no on-site support. We will monitor for outages and critical issues, but help tickets may not receive a response until we return.

Happy Holidays – ORC Staff

GUI access to the popular statistics application STATA is now available via Open OnDemand on the HOPPER Cluster.   There is a limit of 5 concurrent Stata sessions as the license is shared with the Campus Citrix Virtual Computing and Patriot Virtual Computing clusters run by ITS.