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Reliable and secure data center facilities are available for IT hardware colocation use by college and departmental IT units and researchers. Equipment owners provide their own technical support. Accommodations are made for both remote and physical access to equipment.
Need a customized hardware, software, storage and backup, or online solution for your research project? Speak with one of our IT professionals to set you on the right path toward maximizing your resources and utilizing the IT infrastructure that the University offers. We can help you develop a plan for your proposal, estimate costs for budgets, plan for data access and security concerns, and connect you with the resources you need to complete your research.
Our professionals provide expert guidance, project consultation, and technical assistance on various aspects of data curation, especially creating and disseminating open data, code, and other research products. You can consult us about data governance issues, documentation and metadata, data sharing and publishing, long-term archiving, and related topics. In some cases, we can perform pre-dissemination cleaning, transformation, and integration. In addition, we can help with data management or data sharing plans for funding agencies and journals.
Statistical consulting is free to all members of the UMD research community (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff), in all departments and disciplines. Research is increasingly data-driven, and we are available to answer your statistics and analysis questions through email or an in-person consultation. We currently specialize in SAS, SPSS, R, and can also provide support on Survey Design and Analysis.
Need to include infrastructure information about UMD storage architecture in your research proposal? Find out more about the resources available to University researchers.
Data loss can occur at any time as a result of unstable hardware or software, viruses, power surges, or accidents. Protect your research with DIT's data backup service. DIT will configure your backup access according to the data retention and storage management policies you select. Such policies have been engineered with UMD-specific requirements and Disaster Recovery best practices in mind, so you can fully be sure that your backup data is protected, secured and restorable at all times.
Researchers who need dedicated high performance computing resources can contribute to the Deepthought cluster. Contributing researchers purchase the equipment, which then becomes part of the cluster. Your contribution gives your project priority access to the contributed resources. In addition, your project can leverage the additional computing power of the cluster.
Do you need high performance computing for your research project but do not have the funds to purchase equipment? The High Performance Computing Clusters (Deepthought, Deepthought2, and Bluecrab) are available to researchers at the University of Maryland. To access the computing power in these clusters, submit a request and proposal via electronic form to the HPC Allocations and Advisory Committee (AAC). The AAC's role is to foster the use of these HPC resources for research that can make appropriate use of the resources.
Does your research project need access to data storage that allows for growth and worry-free management and security at a competitive price? Many times researchers resort to storing critical, unique data on the cheapest data storage device that offers the capacity they need but with little or no technical support. Consequently, research time and resources are diverted to managing storage hardware. With redundant, enterprise-level hardware, comprehensive support and competitive pricing of our Networked Storage Service, the Division of IT provides this valuable service to university researchers.
Access University licensed and discounted software packages such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Matlab, Oracle, Visual Studio, SharePoint and more!
Interested in buying a new computer or software package at a discounted price here on campus? How about a new iPad or iPod? Well, you're in luck. The Terrapin Technology Store is open, and is operated by the Division of Information Technology as a service to University of Maryland students, faculty, and staff.
The Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM) collects, preserves, and provides public access to the scholarly output of the university. Faculty and researchers can upload documents, data, code, and other research products for rapid dissemination, global visibility and impact, and long-term preservation. You can track views and downloads of your research, and everything in DRUM is indexed by Google and Google Scholar. You receive a permanent DOI for your items, making it easy for other researchers to cite your work. Depositing research in DRUM can help you satisfy data management and sharing requirements from the NSF, NIH, and other funding agencies and journals.
Webex is the university's Web conferencing and collaboration platform. Webex includes integrated voice through your computer and on-campus dial-in at x50600. Webex enables faculty, staff, and students to meet with internal and external colleagues over the Internet using multi-party conferencing and screen sharing. WebEx is designed to work on PCs, Macs, smartphones, and tablets. Webex provides three "centers": 1) Meeting Center - Video conferencing in your personal virtual meeting room or in a scheduled room. 2) Training Center - Lectures, labs and breakout sessions online and 3) Event Center - Large "broadcast" events and webinars Instructors or room "owners" control how others can communicate within the room; modes include: voice, video, presentations, and chat. Proceedings of a WebEx session can be recorded and shared with students within the ELMS course space via a link to the WebEx service.
Need access to high performance computing software? The Deepthought2 cluster has over 100 different software packages available to users, including biojava, espresso, dart, mathematica, modeltest, nwchem, tophat, and more!
Box is a cloud-based storage and collaboration system that provides a Web interface for uploading, downloading, sharing, and discussing files. Box is designed to work on Macs, PCs, smartphones, and tablets, so it gives you access to your files from just about anywhere. Click on the See Also link below to find out more about using your UMD Box account.
The University Libraries' Digital Data Services program provides software development services to the broader communities and partners of the University of Maryland. Services include application development, application hosting and consultation on software engineering practices.
Need to conduct a survey for your research project? Develop your surveys online and distribute them by email or web link. Surveys can be anonymous or linked to an individual or tracking number. You must have UMD credentials to create and distribute, but surveys can be completed by anyone with internet access.
When your thesis or dissertation is complete, the Office of the Registrar delivers it to the university's Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM) for online publication. DRUM is an open-access archive that is accessible by everyone. The Office of the Registrar also supplies it to Proquest, who logs, indexes, and publishes them on Digital Dissertations, a nationwide clearinghouse of theses and dissertations, to which the vast majority of US theses and dissertations are submitted.
Planning for how you will share data with reviewers and other researchers is an important part of your data management plan. Learn more about important considerations for data sharing and public access.
Using graphics, images, maps, diagrams or animations is an effective way to communicate your research data and tell a story about your findings. The Campus Visualization Partnership (CVP) hosts visualization lectures to help researchers develop eye catching and accurate graphics.
Find out more about IT's Networked-Storage, SAN Storage, Data Protection, and Data Archive Services.
Videography and photography services are available to all BSOS students, faculty, and staff. Space is also available for hosting webinars, meeting with external media, etc.
Researchers can use OACS as a resource in determing technology needs for a proposal, including physical tech needs, and use of the BSWIFT high-performance computing cluster.
REDCap is a secure web application for building, managing, and deploying online surveys and databases. REDCap supports offline data collection and synchronization with the REDCap Mobile App, longitudinal and multi-arm studies, secure data storage, project level logging, and customizable user roles and data access groups. Contact us to determine if REDCap can support your project.