The Research Computing Services (RCS) staff members are available to assist you in your research by offering individual consulting, in-person tutorials, and self-paced online tutorials. We want to help you maximize your productivity on the Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) and other facilities you may use for your research computing activities. Many documents, tutorials, and presentations have been developed by Research Computing staff; many of these are specific to Boston University facilities.<\/p>\n
We offer consulting services<\/a> free of charge on scientific programming<\/a>, using our systems<\/a>, and graphics & visualization<\/a> projects. We provide individualized assistance for your particular project and offer expertise in parallelizing code, program optimization for our environment, scientific libraries, and visualization techniques.<\/p>\n Additionally, our consultants can help you to learn and use our many available software packages<\/a>.<\/p>\n Research Computing Services (RCS) offers a Tutorial Series<\/a> three times each year covering Research Computing Basics, Computer Programming, High Performance Computing, Mathematics and Data Analysis, and Visualization. Announcements are sent out at the beginning of the Fall, Spring, and Summer I semesters with the specific offerings and schedule. Always available to the BU community are the a fairly recent video, slides, and third party tutorial links<\/a> for each of the tutorials, including retired ones and ones not being offered during the current semester.<\/p>\n Research Computing staff can provide an extra tutorial session<\/a> or customize tutorials for courses, seminars, or research groups. Please complete the instruction request form<\/a> if you would like an RCS staff member to present one of the RCS tutorials in your research lab or classroom. If your academic course uses the SCC, please, instead, see the Academic Support web pages<\/a>\u00a0and fill in the semesterly course request form<\/a>. For other customized tutorial requests, please send email to help@scc.bu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\nCurrent RCS Tutorial Series<\/h2>\n
Customized Instruction for Research Groups and Academic Courses<\/h2>\n
Presentations Archive<\/h2>\n