Office of Research Computing

Category: News

Christmas Break 2020 – Support

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 [email protected].

Hopper now has power

Equipment Delivery for Hopper has Begun

Five racks of equipment from Dell for the Hopper cluster were delivered today to the Acquia Data Center.  ORC staff will be hard at work in the coming weeks configuring and testing the ORC’s latest cluster.

 

ORC’s Newest Cluster Now Has an Official Name

The ORC’s newest cluster will be called “Hopper” in honor of the computing pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.

Interruption to the Argo Cluster – scheduled 11th October 2020

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 [email protected] with any questions or concerns.