Meet the new WashU IT website. New Look. Same Trusted IT. Better Experience.

The redesigned WashU IT website is here! Explore a cleaner, easier-to-navigate experience with improved service pages, streamlined navigation, and quicker access to the technology resources you need. Visit it.washu.edu

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: 

Omero is Now Available on RIS

OMERO is a modern client-server software platform for visualizing, managing, and annotating scientific image data. It is available on the RIS Platform for WashU researchers at no additional cost besides the storage cost for the images uploaded or imported into OMERO. It’s built for research institutions like WashU to handle, securely store, and share large […]

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protocols.io: Tips and Tricks

September 14, 2026
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm