Research Infrastructure Services Projects
The Research Infrastructure Services projects are part of the RIS mission to facilitate the discovery of knowledge and enhance educational opportunities by providing secure, sustainable, scalable, and integrated research technology services in a collaborative and diverse environment. These capital projects have been approved and funded by governance, and implementation project teams have been established to help gather requirements and facilitate the education and consumption of these new services. The CIOs manage these projects.
2025
SCOPE (Scientific Compute Operation Platform Expansion)
RIS is excited to announce the successful completion and launch of Compute2, our next-generation high-performance computing platform built to meet the growing demands of the WashU research community, is now available.
Basic Infrastructure Statistics:
- 5000 Intel CPU Cores
- 64 Nvidia H100 GPUs
- 200 Gigabit network adapters
- 1PB Vast scratch storage
2024
Data Storage Platform Upgrade
Qumulo is the new vendor for our Storage Expansion, known as Storage2. This new platform provides twice the performance, reduces operational complexities, and includes off-site backups and disaster recovery capabilities. Storage2 is available for general use, new allocations, and condos. The transition will vary depending on the research group.
By the numbers:
- 10.5PB Active Storage
- 40 Nodes
- SMB, NFS, Object
- 40GB/s throughput
- Data backups off-site for 30 days
- 4.13PB Off-site Disaster Recovery