About BC Research Services
Research Services provides consultation, training, and tutorials to support computing and research at Boston College. The Research Services staff has expertise in statistics, statistical software, qualitative research, surveys, GIS, scientific computation, data analysis, computational mathematics, and visualization. We also provide assistance with coding, databases, Web technologies, and administration and consultation for research oriented computing hardware based within the departments and institutes.
Andromeda Support Help Sessions
Research Services is available to assist with Andromeda. We also offer walk-in office hours for support with cluster-related questions.
Time:
Monday (Online): 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Thursday (Hybrid): 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Location:
Online Meeting (Monday and Thursday): https://meet.google.com/qvh-kojm-vuv
In-person Support (Thursday): O’Neill Library 528 (ITS Conference Room)
Announcements
Advance Service Notice
Hello Andromeda Research Community,
We will be patching/upgrading some of the software that supports Andromeda next Thursday, November 12. This will require a reservation tentatively set for 8 am on that date, which means that no job that is scheduled to end after 8 am on November 12 will be allowed to start. All submitted jobs will remain in the queue. The login node will remain available so you can view files and data.
We expect to have the work completed on that Thursday and will lift the reservation at that time.
Thanks for your cooperation,
Matt Gregas, PhD
Director, Academic Research Services
ITS, Boston College
Did you know that all BC Researchers have access to JMP Statistical Software for Free?
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Dedicated Debugging GPU Node
A new interactivegpu single-node partition is now available to help you test and troubleshoot your GPU-accelerated code.
Node Specification
4 GPUs: 192 GB RAM
60 CPU cores: 512 GB RAM
NVIDIA Driver: 575.57.08
CUDA Version: 12.9
Usage Policy
Purpose: GPU task debugging, code development, and interactive testing only. This node should not be used for long-running batch production jobs.
Time Limit: 1 hour per session. Jobs will automatically terminate after 1 hour to keep the resource available for others.
Recent Update
HPC Services Overview
Andromeda is in a healthy state.
The old cluster (“Andromeda 1”) has been permanently offline since 09/15/2025.
If you have any questions or require assistance, please reach out to us via Research Help.