Services
Statistical & Data Services
RCS provides consulting services and assistance for HBS faculty research projects on such topics as machine learning, statistical analyses, natural language processing & more.
Faculty Project Examples (login required)
Read about how the RCS team has assisted with HBS faculty research projects.
Our Team (login required)
RCS staff include experienced statisticians and data scientists with backgrounds in such disciplines as economics, statistics, machine learning, biology, & business.
Software Licensing (Login Required)
RCS provides licenses to commonly used research software (e.g., Stata) at no cost to the HBS community.
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.
Compute Cluster & Data Storage
RCS offers a local compute cluster to work with large data, access storage, and utilize databases, along with guidance on other research computing environments.
HBSGrid Maintenance 6/5: Full Cluster, MariaDB, & Globus shutdown
23 May 2023
Our planned work for June will include security patches and updates of all machines in our environment, requiring system restarts. Accordingly, this will be a full cluster, MariaDB, & Globus shutdown, and all interactive and batch jobs will be killed – please plan appropriately. We will send more details about the maintenance next week. ...
The RCS office is hybrid, and available to help remotely, in person, or via our online resources!
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 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. All training workshops and events are held remotely or in a hybrid format.
Stay tuned for announcements about live demos with the RCS team via Zoom. 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)
- Jun 01 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Scaling Up on the Cluster / HBS Grid Q&A
Baker Library B82 / Virtual
The HBSGrid computer cluster has changed significantly in the last several years, from the infrastructure available to a two-fold increase in the number of users. These changes, coupled with larger datasets and more complex analyses, can make for quite a challenge! Join us for this part-training, part-discussion opportunity.
- Jun 29 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
HBSGrid Training
Online via Zoom
This training for HBSGrid users will cover both basic and advanced concepts and resources of the cluster.
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