The IS&T Research Computing Services (RCS)<\/a> group supports members of the BU community who require access to advanced computing facilities and software and need training and consulting to maximize productivity with these resources. In addition to supporting the BU research community, RCS supports the ever-increasing number of academic courses using advanced computing facilities and\/or software in their coursework. Expert RCS staff offer training and consulting and manage the Shared Computing Cluster (SCC)<\/a>, SCC OnDemand<\/a>, storage<\/a>, and software<\/a> resources. BU has acquired 384 compute cores and 16 GPUs to support academic courses. These SCC Course Resources<\/a><\/strong> are integrated into the SCC and are managed by RCS. SCC Course Projects<\/strong><\/a> are automatically given priority access to this resource. RCS staff are available for training and consulting<\/a><\/strong> in support of your course.<\/p>\n Faculty may use any or all of the services listed here for your course(s). Please follow the guidelines in the Checklist to get access to them.<\/p>\n Faculty, please follow these guidelines two weeks before the semester starts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview The IS&T Research Computing Services (RCS) group supports members of the BU community who require access to advanced computing facilities and software and need training and consulting to maximize productivity with these resources. In addition to supporting the BU research community, RCS supports the ever-increasing number of academic courses using advanced computing facilities and\/or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1692,"featured_media":0,"parent":75285,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135143"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154189,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135143\/revisions\/154189"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Academic Support Features<\/h2>\n
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Academic Software<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Back-to-School Checklist<\/strong>🔗<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n“Student questions, requests for software installations, or problems regarding SCC usage should be handled first by the course instructor and\/or TA\/TF. If they are unable to help, the instructor or TA\/TF should then contact Research Computing Services for further assistance.”<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n