Washington University Information Technology’s Research Infrastructure Services’ mission is to facilitate discovery of knowledge and enhance educational opportunities by providing secure, sustainable, scalable, and integrated research technology services in a collaborative and diverse environment.
What We Do
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Data Storage Platform
The Data Storage Platform is a scalable, high-performance, and distributed storage infrastructure with an integrated long-term archive. Many enterprise-level features facilitate data analysis, management, curation, and retention, enhancing the rate of discovery. All faculty involved in research have access to 5TB of free Active storage.
Scientific Compute Platform
*PROMOTION: Enjoy complimentary access to our Scientific Compute Platform through FY25!
The Scientific Compute Platform provides WashU research faculty access to computing resources and a “batch job scheduler” that runs large-scale, parallel computing tasks with access to many CPU and GPU cores, large amounts of RAM, high-speed networks, and high-performance storage systems.
Research Application Services
The Research Applications and Services represents the collection of research-focused applications that RIS operates or supports on behalf of external customers. Each application might be considered a service unto itself, but we attempt to provide a common framework of abstraction such that some measure of consistency is associated with all applications.
WUSTL Secure Enclave
The WUSTL Secure Enclave service is designed to support the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)(inclusive of NIST Special Publication 800-171) framework defined by the Department of Defense as a way to verify compliance to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). If you plan to respond to a federal government RFP or RFI and anticipate CUI may be involved, you must have adequate cybersecurity measures to accept the contract. CUI may include research data and other project information that a research team receives, possesses, or creates during the performance of a contract funded by the federal government. RIS can assist you with an initial assessment and provide cost estimates for the technology needs required for compliance.
Data Center and Networking
Located on the WUSM campus, the Research Data Center is a secure, energy-efficient facility home to RIS high-performance compute, disk storage arrays, and high-speed networks that support RIS services. Additionally, a data center hosting service and the campus-wide high-speed research network (WURN) service are available through our WUIT partners.