Dear ORCD Community,
In this year’s budget cycle, ORCD received support for the ORCD Secure Research Data Enclave (OSRDE) and our “Get Well Plan” to dramatically improve the quality, capacity and reliability of our shared clusters. We will begin design work and engage the CRCD for advice in the coming months. Great news!
ORCD has also partnered with the MIT Climate Sustainability Consortium, MCSC, to understand our data center energy use and efficiency. We have engaged two UROP students, Wendy Zhang and Yichen Gao who will work with us over the Spring term and hopefully beyond.
Peter
Above the Fold
Announcements
- For GPU fans, Chris Hill lost power at his house and sent this video of his generator producing 5.7 kW, about the same power as eight A100s.
The noise level is 95 dB, also aapproximately eight A100s. Think about that…
- More quantum wormhole drama from Quanta Magazine.
- QuEra is a quantum computing startup spun out of MIT that offers access to their 256 qubit quantum simulator via AWS. They have just partnered with the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center to bring quantum computing into the DOE research ecosystem.