WashU IT Research Infrastructure Services’ mission is 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.
Why RIS? – Researchers at WashU are encouraged to use RIS to streamline their work, boost performance, ensure data security, and foster collaboration with ease, all while focusing on groundbreaking discoveries and quality research. Explore the full benefits of using RIS.
Your future in high-performance computing
After nine months of gathering requirements and executing RFPs, Dell Technologies was selected as the new Scientific Compute Operational Platform Expansion (SCOPE) vendor. With additional hardware and software components from Nvidia and Vast, this expansion will upgrade, update, and expand the high-performance compute platform RIS maintains. By the numbers:
Accelerate your discoveries with CryoSPARC
We’re excited to announce that CryoSPARC (Cryo-EM Single Particle Ab-Initio Reconstruction and Classification), the leading software for cryo-EM data processing, is now supported on the RIS platform! CryoSPARC is an advanced software platform designed for analyzing single-particle data in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Why it matters: CryoSPARC enables researchers to reconstruct and visualize 3D structures of biological samples such […]