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鈥淭he need for a state-of-the-art RDC housed at ISU has been escalating as a wealth of federal and regional big data have become more readily available - but not always accessible - to our researchers," said Neels Van der Schyf, ISU vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School. "Ready access through our new RDC to these data opens new research and partnering opportunities regionally and nationally.

鈥淲ith this facility on our campus,鈥� Van der Schyf continued, 鈥渦nique opportunities for informatics, analytics and training across health, energy and environmental, geographic, social and behavioral, and economic sciences suddenly became reality. ISU is proud to be a leader in a multitude of informatics-intensive fields, and the RDC will significantly enhance our university鈥檚 ability to build on our core research strengths.鈥�

The center will house the university鈥檚 dedicated research computers. ISU has invested approximately $250,000 into these powerful computers dedicated to research.

鈥淭he whole concept of a Research Data Center has been in the making for about a decade,鈥� said Keith Weber, director of ISU鈥檚 GIS Training and Research Center. 鈥淭he creation of the center is a giant leap forward for research at ISU.鈥�

The center鈥檚 computers will be freely accessible to ISU鈥檚 entire research community including students, faculty and staff. Interested participants can submit their requests and prepare to use the facilities now. Users will then be given a virtual server to access the Research Data Center, similar to cloud computing.

鈥淲hat we didn鈥檛 have for years was the ability for faculty, staff and students to use big horse-powered computers, because this center didn鈥檛 exist,鈥� Weber said. 鈥淭his presented a dilemma for new faculty, because how were they going to complete their research? How were they going to receive a grant when they don鈥檛 have the computing infrastructure? The new center will facilitate all this.鈥�

The Research Data Center provides a secure physical infrastructure with network information and hardware that is up to 10 times faster at transferring data than was previously available on campus.

The location of the RDC was very important to the university as well.

鈥淭he remodeled and dedicated space in the engineering building is very secure so not just any individual can walk in,鈥� Weber said. 鈥淭here are also a lot of network and cyber security safeguards, making it extremely difficult to be breached.鈥�

Unlike normal computers, these computers can鈥檛 be plugged into any wall outlet. The dedicated space in the RDC is designed to withstand a huge amount of power consumption by these new computers.

鈥淭here is an ample power supply in this location that other places on campus don鈥檛 have,鈥� Weber said.

 The new Research Data Center should help ISU researchers land new grants.

鈥淚t is very competitive to obtain external dollars from the federal government and other sources, so you have to be able to deliver on what you are promising,鈥� Weber said. 鈥淭here is great breadth of research being done at ISU, but one piece common to nearly all research is the needs for computing power. The new Research Data Center will be a significant benefit to all researchers, allowing them to do research they couldn鈥檛 before.鈥�

For more information on the center, contact Weber at webekeit@isu.edu or 208-282-2757.

Photo information: Neels Van der Schyf, top, and Keith Weber, below.