Research Support and Consultation
Northwestern IT Research Computing consultants collaborate with faculty, post-doctoral researchers, staff, and students to overcome technical obstacles, advance skills, and effectively use computational resources. Support is provided for all skill levels and for all areas of research within the University.
Service Offering
Cloud Computing and Storage Onboarding and Support
Researchers who can benefit from the on-demand resources of cloud computing can obtain support, consultations, training, and implementation assistance from Northwestern IT.
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Genomics Pipeline Development and Support
Support is available for genomics and bioinformatics software and pipelines, including troubleshooting, development, and guidance for best practices.
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High-Performance Computing Onboarding
Northwestern IT staff will help researchers access and effectively use the university’s computing cluster, Quest, or national facilities, such as XSEDE.
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Proposal Writing Assistance
Northwestern IT supports preparation of research proposals by assisting with technical information, budgeting, letters of commitment, and writing computing components of grant applications.
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Research Code and Workflow Support
Northwestern IT staff can assist in debugging and troubleshooting code as well as consult on workflow optimization and effective use of software tools and databases.
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Scientific Visualization
Researchers generating data that requires custom visualization support can engage Northwestern IT to collaboratively develop novel visualizations.
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Service Owner
Research Computing Services
Aliases
- Research consultations
- Computational help
- Coding help
- Coding support
- XSEDE
Last Updated: 20 February 2019
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