From astronomy to zoology, IU provides research services for researchers, artists, scholars, clinicians, and engineers. Use these resources for projects requiring massive secure storage or big data research, or build your skills through training sessions or expert consulting.
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Big Red 200
A Cray Shasta supercomputer supporting advanced research, Big Red 200 is one of the fastest university-owned artificial intelligence supercomputers in the nation. Accounts are available to IU graduate students, faculty, and staff, as well as undergraduate students sponsored by full-time IU faculty or staff.
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SecureMyResearch
Concentrate on your work and leave the security and compliance responsibilities to the experts. SecureMyResearch offers one-on-one consulting, advocacy, and a one-stop, self-service resource for common research use cases. You’ll have safer data and greater breakthroughs with SecureMyResearch.
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From research to scholarship to creative activity, you’ll find the tools, tech, and training you need to do your work faster and on the grandest of scales.
CACR is an IU research center that tackles cyber risk in research and other unusual environments through agile, holistic, principle-based cybersecurity.
Visit CACRCollaboration is key in today’s research environment. The centers that make up PTI convert new innovations in IT and cyberinfrastructure into robust, practical tools.
- Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab: Develops software to help detect and respond to civil emergencies
- Cyberinfrastructure Integration Research Center (CIRC): Broadens and enhances the use of advanced cyberinfrastructure, including large supercomputers, grids of smaller computers, and advanced data sources
- Data to Insight Center: Carries out foundational research in the social and technical challenges of data use in research and scholarship
- eLearning and Discovery Lab: Focuses on using online teaching tools as a mechanism for enabling new learning research
- HathiTrust Research Center: Provides secure access to 16 million+ books, most of which are under copyright
- Office of the Executive Director: performs research in cloud computing and return on investment in computing facilities
- UITS Research Technologies: Delivers and supports cyberinfrastructure resources
PTI centers also aid grant competitiveness by offering custom programming services that can be written into your grant budgets. Contact pti@iu.edu for more information.
Visit PTIResearch Technologies provides systems and services that create new possibilities. From consulting to compute and storage resources, research software to training and outreach, RT has the tools to do things better, faster, bigger, and bolder.
The NSF-funded Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC) provides cybersecurity for the nation’s greatest research by making scientific computing resilient to cyberattacks and capable of supporting trustworthy, productive research.