Research Computing: Examples of Our Work

We provide comprehensive research support. Read on to learn about some of the projects we've been involved in.

Digital Scholarship (DS)

Our Digital Scholarship group supports digital projects in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. Examples of our digital scholarship work can be found on the Digital Scholarship Studio Portfolio site, and more information on this service is available here.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Our GIS group does work ranging from field equipment support to consulting for web and mobile mapping applications to classroom StoryMaps workshops. Visit the U-M ArcGIS Online Gallery for examples of what's being done with digital GIS at the University, or read more about this service.

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Our HPC group provides help utilizing campus-wide and local cluster computing resources for research, including training classes and workshops for the entire U-M community. Examples of past projects include:

Adding CVMFS filesystem to UM Great Lakes Compute Cluster to support CERN researchers from Michigan and elsewhere. This project resulted in new non-UM researchers using UM resources and generating new revenue streams for UM. The filesystem was first piloted on LSA resources and later adopted as a permanent resource by ARC.
Teaching tailored workshops to introduce Economics students to high performance computing using proprietary data sets to simulate the specific problems they would encounter. Our team is glad to provide tailored workshops for labs, departments and courses.
Transferred a researcher's software into the cluster environment. The analysis she was doing took 72 hours on her laptop, which she could not use for other purposes during that time. Using Great Lakes, the same analysis took 8 hours.
The University of Michigan Research Computing Package is the result of a partnership between LSA Technology Services and U-M Information Technology Services (ITS) to offer active (Turbo) and archival (Data Den) storage at no cost to all LSA researchers. Check it out.

Research Software Programming (RSP)

Our Research Software Programming group provides custom application design and development to support research activities. Some examples of our work include:

Developing a cross-platform mobile application to interact with 3D models in augmented reality.
Writing a custom R package to import, interface with, and analyze specialized research data in a NoSQL database.
Creating interactive tasks for psychology research in MATLAB/Psychtoolbox, PsychoPy, and PsychoJS/Pavlovia.
Adding functionality to and improving performance of a MATLAB-based predator-prey dynamics simulator.
Creating a LabVIEW-based API to drive a set of three-axis motion controllers.
Devloping high-performance Python code to process sensor data from an Arduino microcontroller.

More detailed descriptions of a wider range of our projects are available on our portfolio site, or read more about the RSP service here.

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Research Computing: Examples of Our Work

Digital Scholarship (DS)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Research Software Programming (RSP)

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