Research Computing

Mission Statement

ITS Research Computing (ITS-RC) aims to provide world-class computing and data infrastructure as well as other technology tools and capabilities to support the research needs of faculty, staff, and collaborators. Our goal is to provide state-of-the-art environments and services supporting the highest level of multidisciplinary research.

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News

One question: What changes are new AI tools like ChatGPT bringing to your area of IT?

Posted 1 month ago

The rise of new generative AI tools, particularly ChatGPT, has created a lot of buzz. Google and Microsoft announced major changes to their search engines. Economists are predicting shifts in the workforce. And closer to home, colleges and universities are … Continued

ITS Research Computing collaborates with Chemistry professor and graduate students

Posted 8 months ago

Customer case study  Earlier this year, a collaboration between three members of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry and ITS Research Computing yielded interesting publishable findings. Pedro de Jesús Cruz, now Senior Research Scientist at Merck, was a Ph.D. candidate, … Continued

John McGee named Research Computing AVC

Posted 9 months ago

John McGee has been appointed as Assistant Vice Chancellor for ITS Research Computing after serving as interim Director of the UNC-Chapel Hill group since March 2019.  Research Computing presents institutionally scoped research cyberinfrastructure to faculty, post-docs, staff, students and research … Continued

Research Computing’s Mike Waldron to retire this month

Posted 10 months ago

Mike Waldron will retire June 30 after 14 years with ITS Research Computing group at UNC-Chapel Hill. Waldron started at Research Computing when it was a part of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) organization, just before Research Computing moved to … Continued

Chemistry professor Wei You values expertise from ITS Research Computing

Posted 1 year ago

Customer Case Study Professor Wei You has been a faculty member, also the present Chair, in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry since 2006. His lab has been collaborating with Shubin Liu, Ph.D., at ITS Research Computing since 2008. This … Continued

Why researcher Alexander Murph relies on the Longleaf cluster

Posted 1 year ago

Customer Case Study Alexander Murph (who goes by “Murph”) is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate, working under Jan Hannig, in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research (STOR) at UNC-Chapel Hill. Murph started using Longleaf in early 2020 when beginning work … Continued