Above the Fold: ORCD Seed Fund and Beyond GPU Update
In April we finalized our first seed fund awards. We ended up selecting eight projects out of forty-one total submissions. The number of projects selected was ultimately limited by the number of H200 GPUs (32) we could allocate to seed fund projects at this stage. All forty-one were cool projects and we enjoyed reading everyone's submissions. We will have another round of seed fund solicitations in the fall with more GPUs available.
Michel and Lauren are in the final stages of rolling out a mix of 300 L40S and H200 public GPUs. These purchases are funded through support from the School of Engineering, the School of Science, the Schwarzman College of Computing, the Provost’s Office and from ORCD philanthropic support - thanks to everyone involved for the funding contributions. The public GPUs will be coming online during May, together with new flash storage that can keep up with fast GPUs! We will be working actively to get feedback from seed fund projects and from researchers using the public GPUs on how best to operate these resources to help everyone’s research.
ORCD Job Postings
ORCD has job postings to fill two new roles: Lead Site Reliability Engineer and Lead Storage Engineer. See the postings for more details and application instructions.
What We’re Reading
- Happy 35th birthday Hubble
- On the technical front we have been revisiting the foundations of namespaces and cgroups in Linux as we think about how to share resources.
- We are brushing up on economics and game theory as we think about how to fund ongoing hardware renewal.
- Sam has been learning the fundamentals of how computer systems are built.
- Will greenhouse gas emissions eventually impact Starlink and other low Earth orbit projects?