ORCD provides a basic level of high performance research computing resources and storage for all members of the research community at no cost. Beginning in January 2026, fee-based services will be available to run longer, more resource-intensive, high-performance computing jobs for research.
To request services, contact orcd-help@mit.edu.
Storage Rentals
Every Engaging account comes with some storage at no cost. See our Filesystems Documentation page for more information. If you require storage beyond the no-cost account storage, you can rent it at the rates below.
Storage Type |
Minimum Allocation |
Purchase Increments |
Annual Cost (FY26) |
Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Disk |
20 TiB |
20 TiB |
$20/TiB |
Research group nearline datasets |
Flash |
20 TiB |
20 TiB |
$90/TiB |
Fast I/O for ensemble/HPC modeling, large data analysis/ML training/inference |
Compute Access
Researchers can upgrade their base-level computing service for a per-account monthly account maintenance fee to get:
- Higher priority access to available compute resources
- Higher compute resource limits
- Longer compute resource session duration
Type |
GPU/CPU Resource Access |
Current Resource Limits |
Session Duration |
Monthly Maintenance Fee Per Account (FY26) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Standard |
Priority access |
Up to 256 CPUs and 2 GPUs |
Up to 2 days |
$56 |
Advanced |
High-priority access |
Up to 512 CPUs and 4 GPUs |
Up to 4 days |
$126 |
Advance Rentals
Advance rentals, available to those using paid compute access, provide researchers guaranteed time slots for specific compute equipment (subject to availability and request lead time).
Resource Type |
Current Minimum Time |
Current Minimum Resources |
Cost (FY26) |
Request Lead Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
H200 GPU |
12 hours |
8 GPUs |
$1.00 per GPU hour on-prem GCP Cost Coming Soon |
5 business days |
L40s GPU |
12 hours |
4 GPUs |
$18.06 per minimum reservation |
5 business days |
AMD EPYC CPU |
12 hours |
16 CPU cores |
$2.06 per minimum reservation |
5 business days |