Research Computing Services — RCS

Research Computing Services (RCS), a team within CUIT's Research Services department, is responsible for providing technology resources to support Columbia's researchers so they can work towards the University's mission to be a leading driver of research, innovation and the advancement of knowledge.

We work in parallel with our partner team, High Performance Computing, to offer state-of-the art computing services to Columbia's researchers.


 

RCS Collaborations

code-fork icon
HPC Engineering Team

RCS works hand-in-hand with CUIT's High Performance Computing Engineering team. From coordinating GPU trainings for Insomnia cluster users to provisioning Globus endpoints for big data transfers, RCS partners with the HPC engineers on a daily basis.

code icon
Foundations for Research Computing

In collaboration with the Libraries and EVPR, RCS and HPC staff teach semesterly workshops for Columbia's graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to begin to develop skills with core computation languages and libraries, software development tools, and more.

newspaper icon
Researcher Resource Digest

Together, RCS and the Office of the EVPR send a quarterly newsletter that spotlights systems and solutions that the University offers to facilitate and enhance your research work. RCS also gathers a list of free and discounted research software offerings at Columbia!

Research Computing is everywhere!

Bookmark the RCS Training webpage to stay in the loop!

We develop home-grown trainings (think Intro to Linux for Columbia's high performance computing clusters, Jupyter Notebooks on HPC) and bring in vendor experts like NVIDIA, SnapGene and GCP to present workshops on the latest and greatest research computing tools. 

Let us know what you want to learn about!

Three thumbnails of posters for HPC workshops: Intro to Linux, Intro to Scripting, Intro to HPC

Your one-stop calendar for research computing

We scour the University Events Calendar on both Morningside and CUIMC, as well as event calendars from DSI, the Zuckerman Institute, Libraries, Mailman and major research departments so we can compile a list of events that are relevant to researchers leveraging computing resources.

Forward us your event to highlight!

Review videos for trainings you can't attend

Whenever possible, Research Computing Services will record our trainings so we can add them to our video library. If you aren't able to join us or have to step out to take a call, you can always check out our video library a few days after the event for the recording.