Posts Tagged Research
How do I gain access to the Tufts Research Cluster Computing Environment?
Posted by Kathleen Beauparlant in Desktop Computing & Printing, Frequently Asked Questions, Service Catalog on March 6, 2012
Access to the research cluster is granted by UIT. Any faculty, staff or students that would like to request access to the cluster could do so by completing the web-based UIT Research Account Request form. Once access has been granted, OIT will install any necessary software and provide instructions to the user on connecting to [...]
I’m purchasing a piece of research equipment for my lab. Can OIT help me?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Frequently Asked Questions on May 23, 2011
We highly recommend consulting with OIT when researching the purchase of new lab equipment, as most equipment will need to interact with a computer system. OIT will assist in vendor communications and document the requirements for the equipment. OIT can then help put together a quote for a computer system that will meet the specific [...]
Operating System Imaging
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Service Catalog on April 7, 2011
OIT provides a service for Research computers connected to Scientific equipment. Once a computer has been configured by a vendor, OIT will capture a full “image” or backup of the Operating System on the computer that can be recovered should the hard drive ever fail. The benefit of having a full backup is in the [...]
Research Computing Cluster
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Service Catalog, Teaching, Learning & Research on April 7, 2011
Research High Performance Computing: for researchers in need of computing power, we currently offer a new IBM 60-node cluster with over 500 64-bit cores (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 16 to 48GB RAM per node, Infiniband interconnect). This central service is offered at no cost to clients. A form needs to be completed to request [...]
Research Storage
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Service Catalog, Teaching, Learning & Research on April 7, 2011
Research Storage: researchers who need backed-up network-accessible storage for their research data can ask for storage shares from 50GB to 1TB and beyond. This is exclusively for research storage and it does not overlap with existing personal (P:) and departmental (Q:) drives where non-research documents should be stored. This central service is offered at no [...]