Research Data Services

The SDSC Research Data Services (RDS) division is dedicated to providing decades of technical expertise, investments in data science, and its support of data-driven research. Led by Division Director Christine Kirkpatrick and Director of Infrastructure Brian Balderston, RDS also holds a number of NSF-funded grants and Data Initiatives (see below).

RDS seeks to follow the national trend towards more data-driven and computationally-based research by offering a suite of computing services ranging from Cloud Storage and Compute platforms, Data Center Colocation, Enterprise Networking Services, Research Data Consulting, Storage Backups, Traditional NFS Storage as a service, Universal Scale Storage, UNIX and Windows System Administration, and VMware Virtualization Hosting. For more details, see our available Cyberinfrastructure Services or contact Ryan Nakashima, RDS Research Services Manager at services@sdsc.edu.

In addition to the existing Cyberinfrastructure Services above, RDS continues to expand its service portfolio to custom compute solutions, large-scale high-performance storage, data management tool development, and exploration of other CI services to meet emerging research computing needs.

Data Initiatives

Analysis Platforms

• Custom, cloud-based workbench functionality for your research project or lab.
• Implementation and deployment of open source tools, such as JupyterHub.
• Customized analysis pipelines, including social media analytics and ingestion using SDSC’s Analytical Workbench for Exploration of SOcial Media (AWESOME). Work with SDSC data scientists and research computing staff to create a platform that fits your research needs.

Upcoming

• Nov17-222024

  SC24 - The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis

  Join us on the show floor in Atlanta - booth 3107!

  Location: Atlanta, GA

Training Catalog

Online training classes and workshops are recorded to enable the skills development necessary to use SDSC resources. The following list of previously recorded events offers users an opportunity to train at their own pace and schedule.

• 08/05/24-08/09/242024 HPC and Data Science Summer Institute
• 10/03/23-10/12/23Fall 2023: Quarterly Mini-Workshop on HPC CI Onboarding for the UCSD Research Community
• 09/27/23Azure OpenAI for Research Webinar hosted by CloudBank
• 08/07/23-08/12/232023 HPC and Data Science Summer Institute
• 05/02/23-05/04/23Lustre User Group Conference (LUG23)
• 03/23/23NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series: Large (Hadron Collider) and Big (Data Science)
• 02/13/23-02/14/23UC Love Data Week: FAIR and ML, AI Readiness, and AI Reproducibility (FARR)
• 11/14/21-11/19/21SC21
• 08/10/21-08/12/21Research Running on Cloud Compute & Emerging Technologies (RRoCCET) Conference by CloudBank
• 06/15/21-06/16/21Data East 2021: SDSC's Annual Forum on Data Analytics, Data Policy and Industry Applications