News and Events

Information on generative AI infrastructure for MIT researchers, fall student jobs with ORCD, and more.

Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) and the Office of Research Computing and Data (ORCD) are actively engaged in several projects to support generative AI capabilities that will benefit research at MIT.

Cloud provider pilots, events around campus, and more.

New Director of Scientific Consulting, Meet the Team, and more.

Graduate student and post-doctoral scholar summer positions, ORCD summer install schedule, and more.

GPUs on ORCD clusters, headlines, and what we're reading

New job postings at ORCD and passing the ORCD leadership baton.

A message from Peter Fisher, Head of ORCD, about upcoming leadership changes.

New hands on help pages, spring positions for undergraduate and graduate students, and upcoming newsletter changes.

The MIT Office of Research Computing and Data (ORCD) has multiple undergraduate and graduate student positions to work in our research computing support team. The Office of Research Computing and Data is a new campus initiative that aims to be the “go to” future of research computing for all campus researchers at all levels. The support team provides comprehensive help and training for all researchers on campus who want to leverage computing beyond their laptop and desktop. These positions will work alongside ORCD professional staff. The roles will be involved in helping researchers working with the most advanced computing tools on MITs largest and most powerful computing systems for data analysis, modeling, AI/ML and more.

2023 was a busy year for ORCD, with new hires to round out our team, progress on fixing our technical debt, moving our “Get Well” plan forward, and signing a strategic memorandum with our colleagues at OpenMind. We’re looking forward to building on that momentum in 2024.

We were recently invited to join a panel at the “Future Energy Center Systems” fall workshop with our colleagues at the MIT Energy Initiative and partners at the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium to speak to the challenges of modern datacenter infrastructure for research computing. The workshop included many from assorted industries, academia, and transportation, and we had the chance to talk about data center infrastructure.