Office of Research Computing
F
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.