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Research Data and IT Services

This page lists central, campus-, and Vice Chancellor area-wide research data and IT services at UC San Diego. Many services also exist at the division and department level.

Research information, proposal support, and project startup support

Research(er) information

Data management plan support

Technology boilerplate (Facilities section detail) for proposals

Assistance locating resources

Data/document collaboration, storage, and compute

Document collaboration

Collaborative conversation

Data workspace & storage

  • SDSC Cloud [fee]
  • SDSC Project [fee]
  • SDSC Universal Scale Storage [fee]
  • Commercial cloud: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud [fee]
  • (UC San Diego Health) Health System IS department disk or lab shares [limits, free]  
  • (UC San Diego Health) Health System IS - USER K:drive (link requires login to Pulse) mapped to your desktop and/or laptop. With the K drive you can safely store and back up individual data. Off-site/campus requires UC San Diego Health VPN (Including PHI). [no cost]
  • (SIO) Scripps IT hosts storage [fee], or manages lab storage servers [fee]

CPU/GPU to process data

Regulated data secure access

  • (UC San Diego Health) ACTRI and Information Services – Researcher Virtual Research Desktops:
  • (UC San Diego Health) Health IS offers department (25TB) /lab disk shares  [5TB no cost; additional storage for fee]

Regulated data storage and compute

Data loss prevention

Way to back up data

  • SDSC CommVault backup service [fee]
  • (UC San Diego Health) CommVault (requires login to Pulse) for file servers, Web, and other hosted applications and protected data [Note: not a standalone service; included as a part of VMs and storage offerings]  
  • (SIO) Scripps IT hosts backup [fee], or manages lab backup servers [fee]
  • Commercial cloud: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud [fee]

Data center hosting

  • SDSC Colocation facility [no cost or fee, depending on needs]
  • (SIO) SIO Colocation facility [no cost or fee, depending on needs]
  • Information Services UCSD Health Hosting (requires login to Pulse) [no cost or fee, depending on needs]

Technology development and IT support

Development of demos/proofs of concept

Web dev

Software development

Mobile app development

Ganz Chockalingam at Qualcomm Institute has a group that provides this [fee]

Support for vectorizing code

Workflow assistance

Support for “cloudification” (moving existing environments, servers, etc into the cloud)

Technical support (beyond desktop support)

Software tools and training

General research software

Note: this list is not comprehensive. See also the faculty/staff software list.

Visualization and analysis

Technology training 

Data transfer and networking

Tools to transfer datasets

High-speed networking

Network performance analysis (if issues moving data)

Data sharing, publication, replication, and preservation

Data sharing space

Project/lab websites

  • Google Sites (not permitted by UCSD Health) [no cost]
  • (SIO) Scripps IT provides web space for projects and research groups to share their data [no cost]

Presentation tools

Video development

Persistent data object identifiers

  • Library-provided DOIs [no cost]

Persistent researcher ID

Workspace to add metadata

Expert advice on metadata and data preparation/replicability

Long-term storage space for mutable data

Long-term preservation space

Contact: UC San Diego Research Facilitators at research-it@ucsd.edu or your local department/division IT support staff.

 This list is maintained by the UC San Diego Research IT Services Governance Committee (RISC).