Through our affiliate, the Harvard-MIT Data Center, we maintain and provide access to a large, professionally managed cluster of high-end computer servers, with considerable hardware and software infrastructure to support research and application development. HMDC has a dedicated team of senior systems administrators who maintain and support this infrastructure, and who provide help in using the IQSS Research Computing Environment (RCE) to solve research problems.
The RCE is a completely portable desktop environment that also provides large-scale data storage, transparent distributed computing, and cutting-edged statistical software. The statistical tools automatically take advantage of our distributed computing cluster, supporting much larger analyses than possible on desktop systems. And, for advanced distributed computing needs, we offer job and resource management software, which enables you to use resources on many machines simultaneously to increase overall computing power for larger statistical analysis.
The RCE is best known for its statistical applications, but it also offers a variety of standard, every day software, such as web browsers, email readers, word processors and office suites. All of this software is compatible with most Windows and Mac environments. And, you can bring your existing files into this environment and continue to use them as you normally would. Because the RCE is managed by HMDC experts, you are freed from having to manage multiple machines; to find, buy, install and upgrade software and hardware; to hunt down bugs; or to worry about regular back ups.
For more information see HMDC's Cluster Computing pages.