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RIT Research Computing supports and provides research IT resources to researchers in their quest to discover.

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Project Questionnaire

To access Research Computing services, please provide details about your research project using our Project Questionnaire.

User Documentation

Access our how-to guides for submitting jobs, transferring files, using Spack, Slurm, linux commands, and more!

Project Administration (ColdFront)

Principal Investigators can manage resource allocations (e.g. slurm, storage) and collaborator access for RC Projects from RC’s ColdFront Project Portal.

Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions about software, storage, slurm, or other RC services? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions page!

Utilization Graphs

Curious about your cluster jobs' performance? View our Grafana dashboard to see resource utilization graphs for CPU, GPU, RAM, and other aspects of your recent jobs.

Grant Information

Learn more about our computational resources, including details about RC systems’ security (sign in required).

Events Calendar

Wondering when our next maintenance window or training session is? Check out our events calendar to find out!

Service Requests

Request storage, software, or consultations (e.g. debugging, workflow optimization, grant proposals) using the RIT Service Center (sign in required).

Publications

Since 2016, RIT Research Computing has supported over 600 scholarly works!

Visit our publications site to view these publications, statistics, and information on how to acknowledge RC in your publications.

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Services

Facilitation & Consultation

Our Facilitation Team’s primary goal is to make accessing and using RC resources easier for RIT’s research community. We provide training, outreach, computational workflow optimization, and assistance with grant proposals.

High-Performance Computing Cluster

To serve RIT’s research community, the RC Team manages an HPC cluster, called SPORC (Scheduled Processing on Research Computing). Access to cluster resources is reserved via the Slurm scheduler. Learn more about Slurm and how to submit jobs.

Research Data Storage

The RC Team maintains network storage for the SPORC cluster and (some) research fileshares. While RC storage is resilient (allowing for limited disk or host failures without data loss), we cannot provide backups or restoration of deleted files.

Research Software Support

To enable researchers to focus on their experiments, RC provides research software packaging with Spack for the SPORC cluster. Researchers also have the ability to install their own software.

Research GitLab

The RC Team hosts a GitLab instance, enabling RIT researchers to collaborate on source code for their experiments with git-based version control.

REDCap

REDCap is a web platform for building and managing online databases and surveys for research projects. RC’s REDCap instance does not meet the requirements for storing protected (e.g. HIPAA) data.

Newsletter

Each month, we share system updates, new features, upcoming events, and tips to help you make the most of our resources.

View past newsletters and subscribe to receive them via email each month!

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Governance & Related Information

Acceptable Use Policy

Learn how to properly and responsibly use RC services (sign in required).

Procedures

Learn about your responsibilities when accessing RC systems (sign in required).

Governance

Wondering how RC makes decisions? We are in the process of revising our governance model. Check back later for more information.

CMMC Compliance

The Research Computing environment is not compliant with NIST 800-171, NIST IR8484, nor CMMC controls. Learn more about information handling requirements for research data at RIT.

Contact Us

Service Requests

Request storage, software, or consultations (e.g. debugging, workflow optimization, grant proposals) using the RIT Service Center.

Slack Channel

Join our slack channel to ask quick questions, discuss research problems with your peers, and see announcements.

Email Newsletter

Join our newsletter! Each month, we share system updates, new features, upcoming events, and tips to help you make the most of our resources.

Office Hours

Office Hours are available by appointment three days a week. Location: Institute Hall 1130 or and/or Zoom.