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.
Where GitHub meets WUSTL Enterprise, keeping your data secure
RIS has recently added a new service under the Application Platforms for provisioning or migrating a GitHub organization under the WUSTL Enterprise. Why it matters: Researchers can store their code without having to pay for enterprise-level features such as private repositories. Access to a WashU Enterprise-managed organization requires authentication via your WashU Key and provides better management of WashU […]
Scheduled Maintenance: Major storage & compute platform upgrades
From June 17 through June 24, RIS will perform maintenance to our Data Storage and Scientific Compute Platforms. During the maintenance, RIS Storage and Scientific Compute Platforms WILL NOT be available. Access to our platforms is subject to change during the maintenance window. Our storage software IBM GPFS, will be upgraded to 5 .1 .9 .3. These updates will fix […]