February 25th, 2021 Research Tech Talk Announcements

Training ThuRsday R's Day: Weekly Training Sessions on MS Teams, Thursday, March 4th from 11a.m.- Noon These weekly sessions are a mix of training and show-and-tell for learning useful R tips just like the Enterprise Research IS R User Group Meeting. R is a free and open programming language for...

January 28th, 2021 Research Tech Talk Announcements

Maintenance ERIS is decommissioning older Centos 6 and Windows Server 2008 VM's and Servers Upgrading web stacks with older versions of PHP, WordPress, and Drupal instances Appling SElinx enforcing mode on older Centos VM's and systems Training ThuRsday R's Day: Weekly Training Sessions on MS Teams...

December 3rd, 2020 Research Tech Talk Announcements

Maintenance Server patching by ERIS IaaS Non-prod Wednesday, December 16th from 10:00am – 3:00pm Production Saturday, December 19th from 9:00am – 3:00pm Potential Software Offerings New Software Offerings: Interest Survey Would you be interested in purchasing Biorender, SnapGene or jmp software if...

ERIS Newsletter | COVID-19 Research IS & Computing Activities

ERIS Newsletter: COVID-19 Research IS & Computing Activities COVID-19 has brought to us all new challenges in how we work and what we work on. No exception for Research IS & Computing and ERIS. Our newsletter provides an overview of the RISC/ERIS development and innovation since March 2020 and new...

Non-Standard Windows Computer Light Management Pilot

A pilot is underway to improve the computing experience for institutionally purchased non-standard Windows devices used for business purposes and to assure productive, stable and secure computers. This pilot evaluates an integrated solution for managing non-standard Windows computers used for work...

October 29th, 2020 Research Tech Talk Announcements

Maintenance: We are enabling SElinux on all our older VM's. The Infrastructure team is working with owners of all VM's that do not have SElinux enabled. All new VMs are delivered with SElinux enabled. Centos 6 VM's are end of support life on December 1st. If you have a Centos 6 VM you need to...

MGH Clinical Research Day 2020

Thursday, October 1 from 9a.m.- Noon, stop by Virtual Office Hours to learn about the RISC tools and services available to support research and innovation, discuss problems and answer questions. The Research Computing Core is also participating in the MGH Clinical Research Day Poster Session. Check...

September 25th, 2020 Research Tech Talk Announcements

Maintenance: Production Patching on ERIS hosted servers, Saturday, September 26, 2020, starting at 9:00 am. All ERIS CentOS-6 Hosted Virtual Machines (VM) will reach End of Life on November 30th, 2020. End of Life means the product is no longer supported by Red Hat and the community-supported CentOS...

FY21 ERIS Research Computing Core Fees as of October 1, 2020

The Enterprise Research IS Research Core team provides consulting and technology services to researchers and their project teams at competitive hourly rates. The Core collaborates with users on finding efficient solutions using technology for the unique needs of research environments. New rates have...