Located on the WUSM campus, the Research Data Center is a secure, energy-efficient facility, and is 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 is available through our WUIT partners.

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Take A Tour

Take a Virtual or In-Person Tour of the Research Data Center.

Data Center Hosting

Our WUIT partners offer a Data Center Hosting service which provides a secure, reliable and monitored data center service. Customers can house their managed servers and storage environments in WashU IT data centers at the independent service level.

WashU Research Network (WURN)

The WURN is a campus-wide high speed research network, which increases access to, and enables the transport, analysis, and dissemination of large volume, big data within and beyond the University.