March 31st, 2022 Research Tech Talk Announcements

ERIS Scientific Computing ERISXdl is up and running again. Rstudio and JupyterHub have redundant servers available (Rstudio2.partners.org and Jupyterhub2.partners.org) we are finishing up with the load balancer. An official announcement will be going out soon Core Software All SAS licenses expire in...

Nvivo Licenses Available for Purchase

NVivo portal licenses are offered at a discounted rate through the ERIS Research Computing Core. NVivo is software that can be used for qualitative analysis of textual and audiovisual data sources including organizing and coding multiple data sources in one central project file, assigning attributes...

Learn about REDCap eConsent Functionality

REDCap eConsent Functionality Friday, March 25 | 10:00-11:00am | Virtual Format REDCap Representatives: Lynn Simpson, Research Data Collection Services Manager, Jeremy Alphonse, Research Data Collection Services Project Analyst, Research Information Science and Computing (RISC) Applications and...

Introduction to the RPDR Course

Learn how to use the Research Patient Data Registry Introduction to the RPDR Thursday, March 24| 11:00am-12:30pm | Virtual Format The Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR) brings clinical information to the researcher's fingertips and ensures the security of patient information by controlling and...

Biobank Portal Training

Learn How to Use the Biobank Portal Wednesday March 23 | 10:00-11:00am | Virtual Format The Partners Biobank Portal is a tool that links consented subjects from the Partners Biobank with their health care data from the electronic medical record (EMR) and allows researchers to request clinical...

February 24th, 2022 Research Tech Talk Announcements

ERIS Scientific Computing ERIS Scientific Computing welcomes a new system engineer, Paul Kovtunenko. Several hardware updates are ongoing this week at the Needham DC. MX Deployment for ERISTwo compute ERISXdl migration There is a network extension for new Briefcase Storage. Maintenance The...

January 27th, 2022 Research Tech Talk Announcements

Maintenance There is a major vulnerability in all Linux systems that needs to be patched. Patching non-production nodes on Friday, January 28 Production nodes patched on Saturday, January 29 MySQL Community version upgrade to MySQL Enterprise version is in process. Centos6 Retirement - This is a...

More Virtual Office Hours in 2022

Join subject matter experts online for 1:1 support with Research IS & Computing tools and services available to help your research and innovation, discuss problems and answer your questions. Join the Zoom Meeting at the set time. No appointment necessary. The Scientific Computing team is available...

December 9th, 2021 Research Tech Talk Announcements

Maintenance ERIS Infrastructure Team has started the Migration to MySQL Enterprise from MySQL2 and MySQL4 Database moves from mysql2 to mysql4 11/08/21 - 12/15/21 Lock mysql2 databases with no owners 12/15/21 Move databases from mysql4 to MySQL8 12/15/21 - 1/30/22 More information can be found here...

NEW RPDR Health Equity Enhancements

NEW- RPDR Health Equity Enhancements There is a new Ethnic Group folder which contains Hispanic\Non-Hispanic information. The Race category has been rearranged to conform to current standard race groups. Likewise, the Language information has been broken down into English and Non-English