ITS Research Computing Services provides focused IT services and support for researchers and research endeavors. The Department is currently in an initial phase of development with a focus on core operations and services.

  • Building the core support team. We have added Dr. Michael Puerrer from Max Planck Institute to the team as a new member and added 4 graduate students to the team for additional College level “distributed” support and as liaisons.
  • Updating our core computational infrastructure. This is being done through new interdisciplinary federal grants at URI and those in collaboration with regional universities. $2.2M is being invested in new computational hardware and storage that will be available to the URI research community shortly.
  • Building key relationships with other regional research centers and universities, i.e. establishing a “network” of collaborators – for example the Massachusetts Green HPC Center (MGHPCC) and the affiliated universities such as UMass, MIT, Harvard, BU and Northeastern.
  • Supporting the ~100 core research labs that have immediate needs in the computational research area. These labs approach us with their needs for certain types of computational hardware and support for their computational research and we get them access to those resources and offer them hands-on training, troubleshooting, etc. if they require it.
  • Research, traineeship and internship opportunities for students. We currently have 4 funded GAs on our team that offer support and consulting to various research labs all across the campus. These interactions with research labs offer them an internship-like opportunity wherein they learn about the wide variety of computational challenges that researchers face and how to address them. URI students also have internship opportunities at the MGHPCC and also in the larger eastern region via our NSF Cyberteam’s grant program.
  • Interdisciplinary grant writing and support. We have been deeply engaged in large and small scale interdisciplinary grant writing with several different entities at URI and in the region. We also provide researchers with content (for example, data management plans, facilities statements etc.) for their own submissions that are required by most agencies.