Research Computing Services

Personalized guidance and support in all phases of research projects: planning, data collection, analysis, reporting & visualization.

Services

Statistical & Data Services

RCS provides statistical and data services to the HBS community, ranging from research design and methodological consulting to statistical programming and analysis.

Software Licensing

RCS purchases most research software used at HBS, and many licenses are provided at no cost to the HBS community.

Research Facilitation

RCS staff are available to help researchers determine how to effectively leverage the research computing tools, resources, and approaches that are available today.

Statistical Resources

RCS statisticians have compiled technical notes in a series of technical papers, the RCS blog, and team member blogs.

Training

RCS is proud to offer training to HBS members and the wider academic community on a wide range of programming languages, tools, and techniques.

Research Computing Resources

RCS offers a local computing environment and platform to scale up research, access storage, and utilize databases, along with guidance on other research computing environments.

Our next maintenance is scheduled for Monday, July 12th, 8 AM–12 PM. This will be a full cluster & MariaDB shutdown, for which ALL jobs and sessions will be terminated. Please plan appropriately. ...

About Us

Research Computing Services (RCS) is a centralized service for faculty research computing needs with a staff of statisticians, data scientists, and experts in research computing.

Areas of Expertise

Expertise on the RCS team includes such topics as advanced statistical analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, and high performance computing.

Live Demos

We hold live demos via Zoom on the first Tuesday of each month at 2 PM. Drop in to watch an RCS staff member demonstrate a technique, share a tip, or work through a problem, and then stay to ask any and all questions related to research computing! No registration required. Recordings of these demos are made available after the fact on our live demos page.

How to Attend the Live Demos (login required)

Web Conference

Due to COVID-19 concerns, the RCS office will be working remotely, but we are still available to help!

Individual members of the team can be reached using the email addresses and phone numbers on our team page. You can also contact us via Microsoft Teams and schedule meetings with us via Zoom. You can still request software, HBSGrid accounts, storage, and other resources via these online forms. Other general requests can also be directed to research@hbs.edu or 5-6100 as usual. All training workshops and events will continue, but be held remotely until further notice.

Remote Contact: How to Reach RCS (login required)

Data Practices

RCS provides resources and guidance on general data management and efficiency best practices in various programming languages, along with assistance in creating databases. RCS has also compiled papers, packages, and tools that can help you with your data wrangling, web scraping, statistical analysis, and transferring data, among others.

Faculty Projects

RCS works with HBS faculty on a variety of projects
at various stages of the research process.

Training Calendar

Aug11

Aug 11 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Scaling Up Work with Batch (Non-interactive) Jobs

Online via Zoom

Working with code using GUI tools such as NoMachine is usually a default choice for many users. However, as the datasets grow larger, the task grows more complex, or the number of necessary repetitions increases, this approach is no longer scalable. This session will demystify the process of transitioning to running batch jobs, give you several approaches to make this transition, and highlight a few useful tools.

Sep02

Sep 02 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

HBSGrid Training