{"id":7169,"date":"2015-07-22T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?page_id=7169"},"modified":"2022-08-05T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:15:48","slug":"research-computing-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/how-to-get-involved\/for-faculty\/support-tools-for-researchers\/research-computing-services\/","title":{"rendered":"IS&#038;T Research Computing Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The Research Computing Services (RCS) group within\u00a0<\/span>Information Services &amp; Technology (IS&amp;T)<span>\u00a0provides specialized computing and communication facilities, along with software, training, and consulting, in support of all areas of computational research at\u00a0<\/span>Boston University<span>. RCS resources are typically used in computational science and engineering, simulation, modeling, data analysis, and other disciplines that require high-performance computing or complex visualization. Resources are managed in close consultation with the Research Computing Governance Committee, the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/centers-initiatives-labs\/center-for-computational-science\/\">BU Center for Computational Science<\/a><span>, and the\u00a0<\/span>Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering<span>. The supercomputing facility (SCF) currently managed by the group is the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/computing-resources\/scc\/\">Shared Computing Cluster (SCC)<\/a><span>, a large Linux cluster located at the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/rcs\/mghpcc\/\">Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC)<\/a><span>\u00a0in Holyoke, MA.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/rcs\/' class='button '>Learn more about Research Computing Services.<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Research Computing Services (RCS) group within\u00a0Information Services &amp; Technology (IS&amp;T)\u00a0provides specialized computing and communication facilities, along with software, training, and consulting, in support of all areas of computational research at\u00a0Boston University. RCS resources are typically used in computational science and engineering, simulation, modeling, data analysis, and other disciplines that require high-performance computing or complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7744,"featured_media":0,"parent":21460,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7169"}],"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\/7744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25869,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7169\/revisions\/25869"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}