About the Orca Project and Cluster #

The Orca (Oregon Regional Computing Accelerator) project provides free-of-charge access to high-performance GPU-accelerated computing resources. Orca is funded by the National Science Foundation and hosted at Portland State University.

Getting Started #

For information on getting access to Orca, connecting to the Orca cluster, and using Orca to accelerate your research, see the getting started tutorial.

Getting Help #

For help using the Orca cluster, see the documentation. You can join the Google Group or Zulip Chat to ask questions and participate in community discussions (see the getting help page for more information).

Compute Resources #

Orca’s current configuration includes 100 GPUs across 25 high-performance compute nodes. Detailed specs can be found on the Compute Resources page.