Horvitz Research Cluster

About The Horvitz Research Cluster

Located in the AV Williams datacenter, the Horvitz Research Cluster consists of five computing nodes, three storage nodes providing 18 terabytes of disk storage and a 10Gb Ethernet switch. The cluster is intended to provide a high-availability virtualization environment to serve the needs of undergraduate honors students, independent graduate student researchers, labs or short-term projects requiring disk space, or projects needing high memory resources, and faculty. Faculty members have the option to use a service that can be a backup server mirroring their office workstation, allowing them to remotely power it on and off.

The cluster’s purchase was made possible through the generosity of alumnus Phil Horvitz (B.S. ‘75) and student tech fees.

Requesting a VM

Default VM settings:

OS: RHEL 9 or Ubuntu 22.04
CPU: 2
RAM: 2 GB
Disk: 40 GB
Network: Assigned based on intended usage

To request a virtual machine in the Horvitz Research Cluster, send an email to helpdesk[at]cs.umd.edu with your configuration requirements.

Web VM Manager

We use proxmox as our virtualization manager. Once you received your given url to space. You can log in by clicking the “User Portal” and entering your CS username and password. Realm is cs.umd.edu