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...

COVID-19 Data Mart and Summary Table cohort to remain static

The COVID-19 data mart and Summary Table will continue to be updated with new patient data but not new patients as of July 1, 2020. Scheduled releases will continue to occur each Wednesday with data as current as of the previous Sunday. The current COVID-19 data mart contains a substantial...

May 28th, 2020 Research Tech Talk Announcements

COVID-19 Beta Enclave The Beta Enclave is in full production with 32 Projects established inside the Enclave offering access to the Covid Mart data from RPDR and EDW along with a suite of most commonly requested Analytic Tools including RStudio, Jupyter, Spark and Git. Email questions and requests...

Virtual Research Technical Talk

Join this month for special features: ​​"An overview of the Mass General Brigham System strategy: adjustments being made for the post-pandemic world, and our implementation plans" presented by Jeff Weiss, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer at Partners HealthCare “Research in the time of COVID...

April 30th, 2020 Research Tech Talk Announcements

Change: Home drive (H:\) transition from CIFS2 to CIFSHD Effective 05/17/20 home drives (H:\) will migrate from namespace CIFS to namespace CIFSHD. Anyone accessing home drives (H:\) on a Mac, nonstandard PC or personal device, will need to update their mapping manually. A brief outage will occur...

New COVID-19 Tools for Researchers

In response to the fast-growing number of COVID-19 research projects, new and enhanced research data tools and data sets are being made available to support these endeavors. The goal is to support the rapid turnover of analytics to help researchers understand the signs and symptoms, comorbidities...