{"id":21460,"date":"2020-09-11T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?page_id=21460"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:33:47","slug":"support-tools-for-researchers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/how-to-get-involved\/for-faculty\/support-tools-for-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Support &#038; Tools for Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a growing list of support services available to Boston University researchers interested in incorporating data or computing in their research.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Computing Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/resources\/support-tools-for-researchers\/research-computing-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IS&amp;T Research Computing Services<\/a>: Scientific computing and visualization support for researchers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/resources\/support-tools-for-researchers\/massachusetts-green-high-performance-computing-center-mghpcc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center<\/a>: World-class computing resources<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/research\/cloud-computing\/moc-alliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MOC Alliance: <\/a>With faculty or staff sponsorship, students can become a user of the MOC, a shared cloud platform with an Infrastructure as a Service offering based on OpenStack\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nerc.mghpcc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Research Cloud (NERC):<\/a> Research cloud framework<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/octestbed.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Cloud Testbed (OCT):<\/a> NSF funded testbed for research and experimentation into new cloud platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Facilities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/resources\/collaborative-space-and-facilities-new-25live-version\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collaborative Space &amp;\u00a0Facilities<\/a>: Multi-use spaces available to Hariri Institute-affiliated faculty and students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Software Development &amp; Design<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sail.bu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Software &amp; Application Innovation Lab (SAIL)<\/a>: Professional consulting, design, and development capacity. SAIL acts as both a driver and a collaborative partner in the creation of cutting-edge solutions for the data-driven, computational, and software engineering aspects of research across\u202fthe university and beyond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><em>Find funding and more in our list of opportunities for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/how-to-get-involved\/resources-for-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/how-to-get-involved\/for-faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faculty<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a growing list of support services available to Boston University researchers interested in incorporating data or computing in their research. Computing Resources IS&amp;T Research Computing Services: Scientific computing and visualization support for researchers Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center: World-class computing resources MOC Alliance: With faculty or staff sponsorship, students can become a user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15731,"featured_media":0,"parent":9764,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21460"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43190,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21460\/revisions\/43190"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}