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Research Computing Overview

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University Information Technology Services offers several research computing services co-funded by the Office of Research, Discovery and Innovation (RDI) and available to all members of the UA campus community. These include high performance computing and storage available at no charge in the Research Data Center and server housing space available in the Research Colocation Data Center. In addition, free software, tools, and consulting are available for research computing, data visualization, and statistics. These services are overseen by the Research Computing Governance Committee.

  • Other helpful links for UA researchers include
    • InCommon Federation Partner Login Instructions for using NetID to log in to Research.gov and other partner sites.
    • Research Gateway provides information on Development, Adminstration, Compliance and Resources.
    • Core Facilities — Research, Discovery & Innovation oversees many shared research facilities. This extensive offering provides faculty, scientists and students with access to not only to the latest instrumentation, but also to experienced staff with expertise in designing and conducting experiments and analyzing data. In addition to high-quality scientific services, many of these facilities also offer training and education. 
    • CyVerse, national cyberinfrastructure for life sciences research.
    • Data Management Resources is the University Libraries' center for information to support federal agency data management requirements.
    • Research Bazaar Arizona is a community of research students, faculty, and staff who can help with skills development and questions about computational research and data science.

 

Research News

  • research computing staffer at University of Arizona updating a supercomputer
    Arizona Universities Join Research Computing Fight Against COVID-19
    UANews published an article recently about the contributions of Arizona's three state universities to the Folding@home project. 
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  • NASA concept illustration of WFIRST instrument
    Arizona High Performance Computing in the News
    UITS Research Technologies has been featured in two very different arenas recently—one in scientific papers on running simulations for NASA's next space telescope and one in an interview on the journey to an HPC career. 
    Read more
  • green alga, female cones of Gnetum gnemon, and a cherry blossom
    Researchers "Light Up" the Plant Tree of Life
    The CyVerse Node newsletter picked up the story about the contributions of University of Arizona researchers and HPC and CyVerse computational resources to the world's largest plant genome sequencing project.  
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  • Hubbel Space Telescope image of Abell 370 galaxy cluster
    Virtual 'Universe Machine' Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution
    UANews recently published this story covering a UA astronomer who uses Research Data Center computing resources to model the galaxy. 
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  • Alec Scott, a student worker in the RDC, replacing hardware in the El Gato system
    High Performance Computing Updates Mean More Compute Time for Researchers
    UA’s free high performance computing (HPC) resources are popular and demand is increasing. Researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines are exploring new areas such as machine learning (teaching computers to understand a problem) and deep learning (computers that can teach themselves how to understand the problem).
    Read more

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