ORCD Summer Install Schedule
In addition to 5 ongoing installation projects for integrated PI-owned hardware, ORCD and MIT IS&T will be busy building out common high-speed networking, optimized storage, and improved community computing infrastructure over the summer. Amongst other things, this will lay the foundation for expanding into 16 new racks, to house integrated hardware, and add some options for incorporating non-Infiniband hardware, where appropriate, into the ORCD integrated infrastructure.
As a result of this work, we are now scheduling installation and new system provisioning of PI new purchases for mid-August at the earliest. If you are planning purchases in the coming 4 months, please reach out to us at orcd-help@mit.edu as normal, and we will help move forward purchases of systems from the menu of hardware we currently recommend. However, we will schedule unpacking, racking, cabling, installing and testing work for any new purchases beginning mid-August. If you have already committed to an order then your purchase is in our queue and installation will take place as planned. We will give monthly updates on installation status over the summer. If you wish to purchase a system in the coming months, do please feel free to get in touch as normal at orcd-help@mit.edu.
Headlines
- We’re hiring graduate students and post-doctoral scholars for summer positions.
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HPC and Research Computing Events
- 28th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Virtual Conference: September 23-27, online.
- Call for papers (July 7 submission deadline)
- HPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. We are passionate about performance. Our community is interested in computing hardware, software, systems and applications where performance matters. We welcome experts and people who are new to the field.
- Second Annual US Research Software Engineer Association Conference, October 17-14, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Call for submissions (see site for format deadlines)
- This year's theme is Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: A celebration of all that RSEs have done for computing in the past, in the present, and in the future.