Posts Tagged Research
Backup Policies for Research Data Storage (R: drive)
Posted by Petar Ivanov in Backup & Recovery, Desktop Computing & Printing, Personal and Departmental Storage (P&Q), Service Catalog, Services on April 29, 2013
Research Data Storage (R: drive) is backed up according to the following schedule: Once a month a full backup is taken and kept for a year. Full backups will pick up all files and filesystems at a “point in time” on a storage regardless of any other changes. A differential backup is taken once during [...]
Bioinformatics
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Purchasing & Licensing, Research Cluster, Service Catalog, Software, Teaching, Learning & Research on March 10, 2012
Bioinformatics: The application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. For more information regarding the Bioinformatics resources available at Tufts University, please see the link below. Tufts UIT Research Computing Bioinformatics
Geographic Information Systems Center
Posted by Kevin Murphy in GIS & Mapping, Purchasing & Licensing, Service Catalog, Software, Teaching, Learning & Research on March 10, 2012
The GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Center is a teaching and research facility funded, maintained, and supported by University Information Technology (UIT) to promote and facilitate GIS, remote sensing, cartography, and geographic research and analysis. The GIS Center is located on Level 2 of the Tisch Library at the far end of the Map Room behind [...]
What is the Tufts high-performance computing research cluster (or Cluster Computing)?
Posted by Kathleen Beauparlant in Frequently Asked Questions, Service Catalog, Teaching, Learning & Research on March 6, 2012
The Research Cluster or Cluster Computing is the result of connecting many local computers (called “nodes”) together via a high-speed connection to provide a single shared resource. This shared resource allows certain software applications to break tasks down into smaller components and distribute them among the computers. As a result, there is a significant decrease [...]
Common software available on the Tufts high-performance computing research cluster
Posted by Kathleen Beauparlant in Desktop Computing & Printing, Service Catalog, Software on March 6, 2012
Some commonly uses software titles available on the research cluster are: Matlab: high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numerical computation STATA: full data-management system with complete statistical and graphical capabilities Bowtie: ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner. It aligns short DNA sequences (reads) to the human genome [...]