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.

• Consulting and Help
  • Office Hours
  • Help Request
  • Book a Meeting
• Our Services
  • See Also

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 our services, below.

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, GIS Researcher
    • Meet with Bruno Sousa, GIS Researcher
  • For other questions, meet with one of our Facilitators:
    • Meet with Clinton Heider, Research Computing Facilitator
    • Meet with Bryan Raney, CRC Research Computing Facilitator

Our Services

• Overview
  • What we do & who we are
  • Technical Documentation
• High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Parallelization
  • GPUs for machine learning — ask us!
  • Code optimization — ask us!
  • HPC application support — ask us!
• Research Data Storage
  • Preserving, securing and managing research data
  • Moving large datasets
  • Sharing data with colleagues
• Data Analysis, Mapping, and Visualization
  • Data cleaning and preparation — ask us!
  • Geospatial data collection — ask us!
  • GIS mapping
  • Spatial analysis
  • Data visualization
• Research Proposal Support for Computing Resources
  • Cyberinfrastructure and staffing costs — ask us!
  • Data management plans — ask us!
  • ACCESS proposals
• Cloud for Research
  • Virtual machines on demand
  • Hybrid cloud solutions — ask us!
• Research Systems Management
  • Procuring, deploying and managing research computing resources for your lab
• Facilitation and Training
  • Training for Rice’s shared research computing resources
  • Consultation for computing solutions and workflows
  • Workshops to develop core computing skills and concepts — ask us!
  • We can visit your lab to give an overview of our services and systems, tailored to your research interests. — ask us!