YCRC staff members Adam Munro, Senior High Performance Computing System Administrator, and Matthew Petersen, High Performance Computing System Administrator, have been recognized by President Maurie McInnis with the Linda Lorimer Award for Distinguished Service, as a part of a cross-departmental team responsible for ensuring that Yale has technology services to support research projects involving regulated data.
Driven by a shared purpose, this team of six from the Yale Center for Research Computing, Information Technology Services, and Yale School of Medicine developed the groundbreaking computing platforms for the secure analysis of high-risk data, enabling researchers to pursue breakthrough discoveries while complying with some of the most stringent regulations, focusing specifically on HIPPA and NIST800-171.
These two new research computing platforms offer powerful tools for secure analysis of high-risk data:
- Hopper, is a new computing cluster with an initial 60 compute nodes and more than 200 GPUs. Hopper enables advanced simulations, large-scale data analysis, and secure use of large language models for cutting-edge research.
- SpinupPlus, is an extension of Yale’s Spinup service, powered by Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud-based computing platform. SpinUpPlus allows researchers to quickly launch secure, virtual servers and infrastructure for data analysis, web applications, and other research computing needs while ensuring institutional compliance and scalability.
