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.
Unlocking insights, comprehensive analysis of SCOPE survey results
The survey results reflect the current and future state of the Scientific Compute Platform and the resources utilized by RIS users and non-users and will assist in the execution of RFPs and POCs. Why it matters: The Scientific Compute Operational Platform Expansion (SCOPE) will upgrade, update, and expand the high-performance compute platform maintained by RIS, including part or […]
Expanding the power for research
We are excited to announce the expansion of our computing capabilities to meet the increasing demand for research resources at WashU. This April, we added 40 A100 GPUs and 1,000 CPU cores to our existing cluster. Why it matters: Researchers at WashU will have access to more GPUs and CPUs on the Scientific Compute Platform to accommodate more […]