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
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 supports the NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 security standard, required for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). If you plan to respond to a federal funding opportunity involving CUI, you must have appropriate cybersecurity measures to accept the grant or contract. This includes research data and project information generated during federally funded work.
Research Information Services (RIS) can help you with an initial assessment and provide cost estimates for the technology needed to achieve 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.