16 Research Technologies:

Research Technologies (RT) is unique among peer institutions in how it collaborates with and supports faculty and research labs. RT offers expert consulting, compute and storage resources, research software, and visualization and data services to meet researchers’ needs.  

RT complements these efforts with education and technology translation services to help researchers make the most of the unparalleled technology resources available at IU. RT’s services and support, coupled with leading-edge high-performance compute and storage systems available free of charge to everyone at IU, mean higher grant competitiveness for IU.  

Access to major supercomputer systems with the capacity for massive data storage and ultra-fast networks
is a fundamental need at a renowned research university like IU—across nearly all the disciplines from astronomy
to zoology.

All about Big Red 200 

Big Red 200 is the first university-owned Cray Shasta system capable of artificial intelligence research. Built specifically with IU’s research needs in mind, Big Red 200 supports large-scale research in medicine, climate modeling, physics, and hundreds of academic disciplines.  

 With a peak performance rate of more than six quadrillion—or six thousand trillion—floating-point operations per second, or petaFLOPS, Big Red 200 is more than six times faster than its predecessor, Big Red II. It would take everyone in the state of Indiana more than28 years—performing one calculation per second 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year—to perform the same number of calculations that Big Red 200 can do in just one second.  

Such computational horsepower will help IU continue to attract top research and teaching talent, and bolster
IU’s well-earned reputation as a high-performance computing (HPC) powerhouse.

In the Jetstream 

UITS Research Technologies is home to Jetstream, the first National Science Foundation-funded cloud system designed to give researchers on-demand access to advanced cyberinfrastructure from their desktops, laptops, and tablets—anytime from anywhere. Jetstream2, its follow-on system set to come online in fall 2021, builds upon its predecessor’s success and expands into artificial intelligence capabilities.

Jetstream is also a member of the COVID-19 HPC Consortium, providing vital high-performance computing resources in support of COVID-19 research.