Coming June 15: A Better WashU IT Website Experience

On June 15, WashU IT is launching a refreshed website designed with the university community in mind.

The updated site makes it easier to find what you need, get support faster, and navigate with more confidence.

Learn what’s changing, what’s staying the same, and how to prepare.

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.


Coming Soon: Compute2 – The Future of High-Performance Computing at WashU

RIS is planning to launch Compute2, our next-generation high-performance computing platform built to meet the growing demands of the WashU research community, this September.  ❗️Why it matters Compute2 is for researchers requiring cutting-edge performance for their computational research, including large datasets and complex simulations that benefit from the latest technology and the use of Artificial Intelligence. […]

Research @ WashU with Randall Martin

Background: Characterizing air quality from global to local scales by gathering satellite remote sensing or other observational data and applying the GEOS-Chem model to simulate the atmosphere, interpret those observations, and understand processes that enable prediction.  Relevance: Driven strongly by the effects of air quality on human health.  Objective: To understand the traditional sources and processes that […]

HPC & AI Training Series

We are excited to announce our upcoming training series. Whether you are a beginner looking to speed up C code or an advanced user scaling AI models on RIS Compute2, we have a training designed for you.  Available Trainings Best For What you’ll learn When Introduction to Parallel Computing (C & OpenMP) Researchers using traditional simulation […]

8
Jun

protocols.io: Tips and Tricks

June 8, 2026
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
10
Jun

Introduction to Open OnDemand

June 10, 2026
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
17
Jun

Introduction to Command Line

June 17, 2026
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
24
Jun

Beyond the Basics: Unlocking RIS

June 24, 2026
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm