News and Events

Starting Monday, June 15, there will be a full power shutdown at the MGHPCC, where ORCD systems are housed.

Cloud AI Seed Funds, MGHPCC power shutdown, and more.

In order to upgrade power infrastructure, the MGHPPC will need to reduce power consumption by 30% to some regions of the data center for the week of May 11-16, 2026.

This May, ORCD will be offering two sessions of Introduction to Engaging.

ORCD flyer, upcoming workshops, and more.

We recently released a new way to log into Engaging using a single hostname.

Starting after the maintenance Tuesday March 17, all CentOS 7 login nodes will no longer be directly accessible.

This Spring ORCD will be offering two classes: Introduction to Engaging and Introduction to Parallel Programming.

Agentic AI tools, ORCD Seed Fund grants, computational research skills survey, and more.

New research computing services, Fall 2026 Seed Fund grants, infrastructure plans, and more.

The MIT Office of Research Computing and Data (ORCD) is continuing our strategic Seed Fund initiative. The Seed Fund is one part of a strategic effort supporting infrastructure for applied AI/ML research, creating a powerful AI/ML platform for all of MIT.

The deadline for this round of seed fund proposals is March 4, 2026. In this funding round, ORCD is planning to support around 6 project opportunities for one semester of graduate student funding (Fall 2026) and 3-6 months of enhanced compute resources.