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The redesigned WashU IT website is here! Explore a cleaner, easier-to-navigate experience with improved service pages, streamlined navigation, and quicker access to the technology resources you need. Visit it.washu.edu

WashU IT Research Infrastructure Services’ mission is to facilitate the discovery of knowledge and enhance educational opportunities by providing secure, sustainable, scalable, and integrated research technology services in a collaborative and diverse environment.

Why RIS? – Researchers at WashU are encouraged to use RIS to streamline their work, boost performance, ensure data security, and foster collaboration with ease, all while focusing on groundbreaking discoveries and quality research. Explore the full benefits of using RIS.


Compute2: The New Standard for Computational Research at WashU

WashU IT RIS’s new Compute2 high-performance computing cluster is already driving faster, more efficient research across disciplines. For one researcher, Yuanjian Zhang, working on global atmospheric simulations, the upgrades have made a measurable impact. “Compute2 features the latest Intel Emerald Rapids CPUs, which are about 30% faster than those on Compute1,” he explained. “With faster internode communication and updated MPI libraries, […]

Bridging the Gap in Protein Science: How RIS Empowers the Holehouse Lab

Dr. Alex Holehouse’s lab is decoding one of biology’s most persistent blind spots: intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of proteins. Supported by the high-performance computing and storage resources of WashU IT’s Research Infrastructure Services (RIS), the lab recently published groundbreaking research in Nature. Their paper, “Accurate predictions of disordered protein ensembles with STARLING,” leverages a large […]

User Attestation & Training Requirement

To align with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) data security requirements for controlled-access data, Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) has implemented a formal annual security attestation and training in Workday for all users and has now assigned it to all users as of  June 30, 2026.  This approach has been approved by the Regulated Research Subcommittee and […]

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protocols.io: Tips and Tricks

September 14, 2026
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm