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.
Empower Your Workflow
The THPC (Traditional High-Performance Computing) Application platform provides access to hundreds of applications via the “module” interface typically used in the HPC cluster to access application libraries. This utility is now accessible from OOD via the RIS Desktop Application or command line. Background: THPC is a scalable, sustainable, and flexible environment for RIS to install, configure, test, and deploy applications using common package installers like EasyBuild […]
Keeping tFinity optimized, efficient, and reliable
The Spectra Logic tFinity tape library infrastructure recently underwent expansion, keeping tFinity optimized, efficient, and reliable. Why it matters: This expansion increases the tape storage capacity by 5200 tapes, which is equivalent to 60PB of storage, allowing RIS to meet our users’ archival requirements.