Research Computing Services (RCS) serves as Columbia's research community liaison with central Information Technology groups. RCS works closely with other related entities at Columbia, including the Office of Research Initiatives and the Libraries/Information Services, with the shared goal of advancing research at the University.
Current Projects and Services
- RCS helps to coordinate CUIT management of Hotfoot, a shared High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster, located in the University Data Center and jointly used by faculty and other researchers in the departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Statistics, and Economics plus other groups represented in the Social Science Computing Committee (SSCC).
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- We can arrange to give eligible Columbia researchers access to an allocation on the national XSEDE HPC resource
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- RCS facilitates a technical HPC special interest group (SIG).
- We provide research computing support for the Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).
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- We represent Columbia in the national Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) and the Educause Advanced Core Technologies Initiative (ACTI) Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CCI) working group.
- RCS staff assists with Columbia's Green Data Center initiatives.
Other Fee-based Research Computing Resources
We list several fee-based HPC and file storage services in alphabetical order that Columbia researchers may want to investigate on their own. At this time, RCS does not recommend one resource over another or provide support for these external services.
- Amazon Web Services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and storage services
- Columbia University Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2) colocation and hosting services
- Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing Red Cloud services
- New York State HPC Program: Resources at RPI and Brookhaven
- POD IU: HPC on demand hosted at Indiana University
- San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) Cloud Storage Services
- USC Digital Repository
- Windows Azure