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.
Transitioning to secure Globus tasks
Earlier this year, RIS Storage1 was considered a HIPAA-compliant High Assurance Collection. Why it matters: This change means the new RIS Storage1 collection, released last September, is required for all new Globus tasks. Current guest collections using the legacy Wash U RIS Storage1 dtn1 and dtn2 collections will still work. However, they will not be considered High Assurance.
Maintenance follow-up: major storage & compute platform upgrades
On June 14 and 17 – 20, RIS performed maintenance on our Data Storage and Scientific Compute platforms. Updates: 400+ servers updated with the following