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.
The Future of Scientific Computing at WashU is Here
The RIS team has completed each vendor’s delivery, installation, and configuration of hardware and are working on configuring the new SLURM job scheduler and supporting systems. We will select early adopters for usability and performance testing to ensure our cluster infrastructure meets Compute2’s highest performance, security, and reliability standards. We are targeting September 2025 for […]
RIS & DI2 Partner for Digital Transformation Summer Corps
Digital Intelligence and Innovation (DI2) held its inaugural Digital Transformation Summer Corps this year. This program invited students with software development and digital science skills to work alongside faculty like RIS to accelerate digitally enabled research projects at WashU. Our partnership provided student teams with high-performance GPUs to develop AI algorithms throughout their projects. One student team, in particular, […]