The Center for Research Computing (CRC) is here to support your research computing needs, providing shared facilities and services for computing, visualization, data storage, and networking.

Quick Links

• CRC's Technical Documentation
• CRC's Services

Consulting and Help

To request help, ask a question, or schedule a consultation, you may contact us in several ways.

Office Hours

We hold in-person office hours every Tuesday from 10am - 2pm in Mudd 101A.  (Also listed on the Rice Events calendar.)

Stop by to ask any questions you have regarding Rice's Research Computing resources and/or the services offered by the CRC.  We cover topics such as running jobs on our compute clusters, setting up virtual machines on ORION, handling large and/or sensitive datasets, visualizing data, research software, and many others.  See also our services.

Help Request

Submit a request and we'll get back to you via email as soon as possible.

Book a Meeting

You can schedule a personal consultation (via Zoom or in-person) by visiting one of our booking pages:

• • For questions about running software on the NOTS cluster:
    • Meet with Qiyou Jiang, Sr HPC Application Developer
    • Meet with Xiaoqin Huang, Computational Scientist
  • For questions about spatial analysis or data visualization:
    • Meet with Uilvim Ettore, Geospatial Analytics & Data Visualization Specialist
    • Meet with Bruno Sousa, Geospatial Analytics & Data Visualization Specialist
  • For other questions, meet with one of our Facilitators:
    • Meet with Clinton Heider, Research Computing Facilitator
    • Meet with Bryan Raney, CRC Research Computing Facilitator