Research Computing Services

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Mission

Northwestern Information Technology partners with the research community to develop and deliver services and support to meet multidisciplinary research needs, enable discovery, and foster collaboration among researchers.

Services

• Training and Consultation
  We provide regular workshops, access to online training resources, and guides to help you use our services effectively. Have a question not covered by our documentation or need individualized support?  We provide a range of consultation services to support your computational research and work with research data. Learn more about our team.
• Data Science and Visualization
  Research Computing and Data Services includes specialists in data science, visualization, and programming skills who are available to answer questions, collaborate on projects, and provide training.
• Data Management and Sharing
  We provide services for securely storing research data, as well as specialists to collaborate with researchers on data management plans and workflows. Have a question about managing, storing, archiving, transferring, or sharing data? We’re here to help.
• Computing and Software
  Northwestern students, faculty, and staff can access various computing resources, software and support services to carry out their work and research activities at the University without any expense or with discounted prices. Computing resources such as high-performance compute clusters, remote desktop environments, virtual machines, commercial applications and research software, as well as support from research computing professionals are available to meet diverse computational needs. Additional computing and support is available for genomics researchers.