Questions We Can Help With
Research IT consultants will:
- Assist in debugging SLURM job scripts on Savio or other environments
- Consult about storage options and configure software and scripts for the ongoing transfer of data as resources allow, but the researcher is typically responsible for executing the data transfers
- Provide assistance in software installation and configuration
- Identify resources for doing computation and storing data, whether on-campus or cloud-based resources
- Identify the best computing solution to working with sensitive data
- Connect researchers to IST staff and aid decision-making by helping researchers understand the relevant technical aspects around the configuration of IST-hosted services
Research IT consultants do not (typically) offer the following types of assistance:
- Debugging users’ analytical/processing code
- Optimizing code
- Data cleaning and “munging”
- Ongoing transfer of data
- Configuring IST-hosted services