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Next week, on February 18 and 19 at 9:00 AM CST, the Tape Library, which serves the Archive storage tier and tape backup system, will undergo yearly maintenance. Recalling data from the Archive and backup tape will be unavailable during the scheduled maintenance. Active storage and self-service snapshots will be available during this time with […]

The Compute1 system is scheduled for decommissioning, effective July 1, 2027. Compute1 will remain operational at no cost until that date, to give you time to transition your workloads. ✅ Our priority: 📢 Actions to take: Below are milestones that will take place throughout fiscal year 2026 and continue into fiscal year 2027, until the decommission […]

Are you reaching your Box storage limit? Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) offers a powerful solution: 5TB of free Active storage for research faculty, with Archive available. Reach out to us and we’ll help you estimate storage costs, learn how to migrate data, and ensure a seamless and worry-free transition. ➡️ Learn more about the Data Storage Platform, and get onboarded today or […]

WashU IT RIS’s new Compute2 high-performance computing cluster is already driving faster, more efficient research across disciplines. For one researcher, Yuanjian Zhang, working on global atmospheric simulations, the upgrades have made a measurable impact. “Compute2 features the latest Intel Emerald Rapids CPUs, which are about 30% faster than those on Compute1,” he explained. “With faster internode communication and updated MPI libraries, […]

Digital Intelligence and Innovation (DI2) held its inaugural Digital Transformation Summer Corps this year. This program invited students with software development and digital science skills to work alongside faculty like RIS to accelerate digitally enabled research projects at WashU. Our partnership provided student teams with high-performance GPUs to develop AI algorithms throughout their projects. One student team, in particular, […]