{"id":3011,"date":"2009-10-08T18:07:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T22:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/research\/scv_import\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:26:01","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research Computing Services provides computing, storage, and visualization resources and services to support research that has specialized or highly intensive computation, storage, bandwidth, or graphics requirements. Typical applications include bioinformatics, geographic information systems (GIS), statistics, data analysis, molecular modeling, scientific and engineering simulation, and visualization. Research Computing resources and services are widely used by researchers across both the Charles River and Medical campuses.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment113369\" style=\"width: 410px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rcs.bu.edu\/PR\/scc-growth\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/files\/2024\/07\/rcs_scc_starburst_2013-2014_400px.gif\" alt=\"Detailed slides of the SCC's growth between June 2013 and June 2022 can be viewed at: rcs.bu.edu\/PR\/scc-growth\/\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113369\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detailed slides of the SCC\u2019s growth between June 2013 and June 2024 can be viewed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/rcs.bu.edu\/PR\/scc-growth\/\">rcs.bu.edu\/PR\/scc-growth\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The primary computing resource is <a href=\"\/tech\/support\/research\/computing-resources\/scc\/\" title=\"BU's Shared Computing Cluster\">BU\u2019s Shared Computing Cluster (SCC)<\/a>, a heterogeneous Linux cluster with an array of storage options located at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (<a href=\"\/tech\/support\/research\/rcs\/mghpcc\/\" title=\"MGHPCC\">MGHPCC<\/a>). A broad selection of software for scientific research computing is supported.<\/p>\n<p>Consulting and programming assistance are available from the <a href=\"\/tech\/support\/research\/training-consulting\/consulting\/scientific-programming\/\" title=\"scientific programmers\">scientific<\/a> and <a href=\"\/tech\/support\/research\/training-consulting\/consulting\/visualization-consulting\/\" title=\"visualization consulting\">visualization<\/a> programmers and consultants and <a href=\"\/tech\/support\/research\/training-consulting\/consulting\/systems-consulting\/\" title=\"system administrators\">system administrators<\/a>. <a href=\"\/tech\/support\/research\/training-consulting\/\" title=\"Tutorials and training materials\">Tutorials and training materials<\/a> are also available for getting started and becoming more proficient with the resources.<\/p>\n<p>Visualization resources include graphics and virtual reality facilities and software as well as staff expertise to support a broad range of research application areas.<\/p>\n<p>People using the SCC must be a member of a Research Computing Services (RCS) research project. BU faculty may <a href=\"\/tech\/support\/research\/account-management\/\" title=\"create SCC research projects\">create SCC research projects<\/a>, serve as the Lead Project Investigators, and add their collaborators (students, researchers outside of BU, etc.) to their research projects. Undergraduate and graduate students interested in using the facilities, but not yet associated with a research project, may contact <a href=\"mailto:help@scc.bu.edu\" title=\"help@scc.bu.edu\">help@scc.bu.edu<\/a> to inquire about start-up accounts with very small CPU allocations and limited time durations.<\/p>\n<p>A base-level of computing and storage resources is available on a fair-share allocation basis without charge through the <em>shared<\/em> service model. For those researchers who require additional computing and storage resources within the managed shared environment, the <em><a href=\"\/tech\/support\/research\/computing-resources\/service-models\/buy-in\/\" title=\"buy-in\">buy-in<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/tech\/support\/research\/computing-resources\/file-storage\/proj-diskspace\/#SAAS\" title=\"Storage-as-a-Service\">Storage-as-a-Service<\/a><\/em> programs are available at highly subsidized rates.<\/p>\n<p>Resources are managed in close consultation with the <a href=\"\/tech\/about\/governance\/research\/\" title=\"Research Computing Governance Committee\">Research Computing Governance Committee<\/a>, the Shared Computing Faculty Advisory Committee, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ccs.bu.edu\/\" title=\"BU Center for Computational Science\">BU Center for Computational Science<\/a>, and the <a href=\"\/hic\/\" title=\"Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering\">Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Research Computing Services (RCS) group within Information Services &#038; Technology at Boston University provides computing, storage, and visualization resources and services to support research that has specialized or highly intensive computation, storage, bandwidth, or graphics requirements&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1348,"featured_media":0,"parent":74753,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"service.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3011"}],"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\/1348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153386,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3011\/revisions\/153386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}