Overview

Research Computing Services (RCS) supports the computational needs related to both research and teaching when those needs move beyond the capabailities of a standard personal computer. Our goal is to make the access and use of specialized compute resources easier for faculty and students at Franklin & Marshall College as well as to facilitate collaboration across institutions.

Research support

We provide assistance in the following areas:

Computing
  • High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster
  • GPU compute systems
  • High-memory compute systems
Software
  • Research-related software installation/maintenance
  • ArcGIS
  • MATLAB
  • RStudio Pro
  • Jupyter Notebooks
Data
  • Storage/backup
  • Shared data for research groups
  • Transfer with research collaborators/off-campus using Globus
Education/Outreach
  • Training
  • Computational workflow optimization
Grant assistance
  • Guidance purchasing computer equipment
  • Data management plans

Class/teaching support

We also provide some support/access to computational resources for classes especially for classes that wish to use:

  • ArcGIS
  • MATLAB
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • RStudio Pro
  • Webwork