Research Infrastructure Services

Research Infrastructure Services includes access to a scientific compute cluster and data storage platform.  The compute service is available to all WashU faculty, staff, or students involved in research.  In addition, all faculty involved in research have access to 5TB of free active storage. (Faculty can request access to their storage be given to staff, or students involved in their research.)

Description of Scientific Compute Platform

Base system

  • 5,000 Intel Cascade Lake Cores
  • 120 Nvidia Telsa V100 GPUs
  • 300TB DDN high-performance scratch space
  • 100Gbit Mellanox HDR Network

Arts & Sciences Condo

In addition to the general use compute nodes describe above A&S has a condo of additional nodes that are available exclusively for use by all faculty, staff and students who apply for and are granted access to the general compute cluster.

How to request an account on the compute cluster

Have your department number and Workday Cost Center as these are required entries on the form.

Open a ticket with the RIS

  1. Select Request Support
  2. Login with your wustl key
  3. Select Scientific Compute platform (left menu) then Activate Compute Services

If you have not requested access to storage in the past then the 5TB of space will be allocated when your compute account is setup.

Quickstart Guide for RIS compute

How to request activation of 5TB of free storage

Have your department number and Workday Cost Center as these are required entries on the form.  

Open a ticket with the RIS

  1. Select Request Support
  2. Login with your wustl key
  3. Select Storage Platform (left menu) then Activate a new storage allocation

 

 

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