{"id":81064,"date":"2014-06-06T14:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=81064"},"modified":"2016-05-10T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T19:15:05","slug":"research-computing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/about\/departments\/research-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment99036\" style=\"width: 118px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment99036\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2016\/05\/Wayne_Gilmore.jpeg\" alt=\"Wayne Gilmore, Director\" width=\"108\" height=\"144\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99036\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment99036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Gilmore,<br \/>Director<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Research Computing Services (RCS) group provides computing and visualization resources and services to support research that has specialized or highly intensive computation, storage, bandwidth, or graphics requirements. Typical applications include scientific and engineering simulation, data analysis, and visualization.<\/p>\n<p>Resources are managed in close consultation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/about\/governance\/research\/\">Research Computing Governance Committee<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ccs.bu.edu\/\">BU Center for Computational Science<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/\">Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Computation Facilities\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/computing-resources\/\">Computation Facilities<\/a> have been greatly enhanced with the opening of the <a title=\"MGHPCC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/rcs\/mghpcc\/\">MGHPCC<\/a> in Holyoke, MA. In addition to the University provided <a title=\"shared facilities\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/computing-resources\/scc\/\">shared facilities<\/a>, Researchers who would like their own can participate in the <a title=\"Buy-in Program\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/computing-resources\/service-models\/buy-in\/\">Buy-in Program<\/a>. Those interested in getting an account on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/computing-resources\/scc\/\">Shared Computing Cluster<\/a> should view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/account-management\/\">Accounts Management<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<p>RCS\u2019s broadly trained staff assist members of the research and education community to accelerate the advancement of research and education. They offer <a title=\"Tutorials\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/training-consulting\/\">tutorials<\/a> and <a title=\"Consulting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/training-consulting\/consulting\/\">consulting<\/a> and maintain <a title=\"Documentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/\">documentation<\/a> covering most areas involved in high-performance computing and visualization for researchers at Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Research Computing Services group provides computing and visualization resources and services to support research that has specialized computation, storage, bandwidth, or graphics requirements&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1303,"featured_media":0,"parent":81039,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81064"}],"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\/1303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81064"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99037,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81064\/revisions\/99037"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}