Research system accounts
Requesting an account
If you are working on a research project that requires supercomputing or data storage, UITS can provide the access you need.
- If you do not yet have any IU computing accounts, create your first account.
- If you already have some IU accounts, request an additional account.
- Or set up a research system account for a group or department.
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Slate
A centralized, high-performance Lustre file system designed for the persistent storage of scholarly data to meet the needs of data-intensive workflows and analytics running on IU’s research supercomputers.
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Big Red 200
IU's newest research supercomputer, a Cray Shasta supercomputer designed to support scientific and medical research, and advanced research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics.
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The Scholarly Data Archive (SDA)
A distributed storage service co-located at IU data centers in Bloomington and Indianapolis that provides extensive capacity for storing and accessing research data. Offers large-scale archival or near-line data storage.
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Quartz
Designed to deliver large amounts of processing capacity over long periods of time, Quartz provides the advanced supercomputing performance needed to run high-end, data-intensive applications that are critical to scientific discovery and innovation.
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The Research Database Complex (RDC)
Supports research-related MySQL databases and data-intensive applications that require databases.
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Carbonate
IU’s large-memory computer cluster designed to support data-intensive computing. Well suited for genome assembly software, large-scale phylogenetic software, and other genome analysis applications.
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Big Red 3
Cray XC40 supercomputer with extreme processing capability and high-bandwidth network topology. Ideal for large-scale, compute-intensive applications.
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