Research Computing Center

Speaker Series

The Research Computing Center (RCC) at the University of Chicago hosts a quarterly speaker series featuring a variety of perspectives on high-end computing, AI, technology, and more.

The Research Computing Center invites you to join our team.

Leadership

H. Birali Runesha

Associate Vice President for Research Computing 

Director of the Research Computing Center

The Research Computing Center (RCC) has multiple locations.

The Research Computing Center (RCC) is dedicated to providing the University of Chicago community a full-service high-performance computing (HPC) center, including visualization resources, access to software, workshops, one-on-one consulting with domain experts, and complete data-management strategies to researchers across all departments and divisions.

The Faculty Education Advisory Committee, which reviews the RCC’s education services and programs, monitors the impact of the RCC non-credit courses and training activities; contributes to providing an assessment of the present needs.

Brain Awareness Day is an event where the latest, and most fascinating, brain research is demonstrated to specially invited students of schools neighboring the University of Chicago. The event allows the students to participate in a hands-on, engaging, and fun learning environment where they can ask questions of experts in the field and partake in interactive, exciting, and innovative activities. 

You can find more information on Brain Awareness Day on its website.

Vision

To transform and enable research, education, and discovery at UChicago.

The Research Computing Center (RCC) has committees to help guide its mission to support research and scholarship at the University of Chicago. The current committees are:

The Research Computing Oversight Committee, which oversees the development and execution of a comprehensive University-wide research computing strategy and advises the vice provost for research on research computing challenges and opportunities;

Resource Allocation Advisory Committee

The charge of the Research Computing Center Resource Allocation Advisory Committee is to promote the Research Computing Center and advise it on the allocation of computing resources and services that will support research and scholarship at the University of Chicago.