SPARTA, Secure Research Environment (SRE), Research Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC)
The HPC cluster maintained at CWRU is of a modest size in comparison with other HPC / supercomputer resources and commercial providers. While our resource serves well for many research uses, it is not of adequate size to handle larger computational tasks that may require several hundred or several thousand simultaneous processors. For those larger jobs, there are other resources available to CWRU researchers that are both free and commercially available.
Globus is a data management service that can be used to share and transfer large scale research data. It is available to all CWRU users under a standard subscription.
Computationally intensive research is supported through the operation of continuously growing high performance computing cluster based on Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel processors and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Faculty who are interested in using the resource should complete the HPC application form on the Research Computing website.
iThenticate is a provider of professional plagiarism detection and prevention technology used by publishers and research institutions to ensure the originality of written work before publication.
The Office of Sponsored Projects Administration Reporting System (OSPARS) contains a series of management summary level reports of Proposals and Awards across the university over a period of 3 to 5 years prior to the current fiscal year.
The Proposal and Award Database System (PADS) is an internal financial reporting tool that is administered by the Office of Sponsored Projects Accounting for administrators within CWRU's research community.
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. While REDCap can be used to collect virtually any type of data, it is specifically geared to support online or offline data capture for research studies and operations.
Research endeavors frequently necessitate the creation of databases and related applications. UTech offers premier database design and programming services that leverage the Web-based Oracle Application Express (APEX) system. With these services, researchers can produce sound data management plans and create secure and effective systems for their research needs. Because the APEX system is entirely Web-based, there is no need for researchers to purchase specialized hardware or software; it can be
The Secure Research Environment (SRE) is a controlled environment and FISMA-based security program. Research data with sensitive content may be stored and analyzed inside the environment.
The Federal Information Security Act of 2002 (FISMA) is a law requiring protection of sensitive data created, stored or accessed by the Federal Government or any entity on its behalf.
SPARCRequest (Services, Pricing, & Application for Research Centers) is a web-based research transaction management system that provides a central portal to researchers and their study teams to browse for research services and resources as well as submit service and pricing requests with a focus on proposal/budget development.
SpartaCOI is the Office of Research Compliance's electronic system for administering research-related conflict of interest certifications. Faculty and research-related staff use SpartaCOI to complete their annual COI training and submit/update annual COI certifications and disclosures.
The electronic pre-award system for submission of grant proposals and initiation of research contracts is called Sparta (Sponsored Programs Application for Research Tracking and Administration) Pre-Award.
Sparta Pre-Award, also known as SpartaGrants, includes a number of key features such as simplified forms, automapping between forms to minimize data entry errors, form validations and system-to-system submission to grants.gov.
SpartaIRB is designed to be more user-friendly, and we hope that it will make the process of submitting to the IRB easier and more straightforward.
Spiderweb provides a portal to information about grants, contracts and, as applicable, regulatory protocols pertaining to the use of human subjects, animals or recombinant DNA in research. It also provides users with the ability to enter and retrieve data that are needed for sponsored project administration such as electronic routing and submission of proposals and protocols, online conflict of interest updating and continuing research education credit (CREC) information.
Visualization refers to the process of rendering information for the purpose of visual appreciation or understanding. Case UTech research computing supports visualization activities for researchers throughout the Case community. In addition, research computing has computing systems that provide the means to produce, explore or share visualization materials.