Pick your path
Four short guided paths. Pick the one that sounds like you, work through the steps in order, and tick them off as you go.
Research faculty / PI
Lab setup, proposals, and funding, for new and established PIs alike.
- Book a consultation
- Grab proposal boilerplate
- Plan your data management
Grad student / postdoc
Getting compute time and running your first jobs.
- Find your cluster
- Set up your account
- Write your first job script
Clinical researcher
Working with patient data, compliantly, from cohort to publication.
- Scope your cohort
- Request clinical data
- Store it compliantly
External collaborator
Joining a Stony Brook project from outside, or sponsoring someone who is.
- Get a collaborator account
- Receive shared files
- Move big datasets
Research faculty / PI
Lab setup, proposals, and funding, for new and established PIs alike.
Book a consultation
Free grant and computing consultation: letters of support, budgets, facilities text.
Grab proposal boilerplate
Facilities statement, security paragraph, and DMSP skeleton, ready to adapt.
Plan your data management
DMPTool covers the data plan your funder expects.
Pick your storage
The storage picker matches your data to the right service in four questions.
Get your group on HPC
Project numbers, accounts for students, first jobs.
Acknowledge RCI in papers
Copy-paste citation text. It sustains the resources you use.
Grad student / postdoc
Getting compute time and running your first jobs.
Find your cluster
A few questions point you to SeaWulf, NVwulf, or ClinWulf.
Set up your account
Account, DUO, first login: one path from zero. Needs sign-off from your mentor or faculty advisor.
Skip the terminal (optional)
Jupyter, RStudio, and MATLAB in your browser via Open OnDemand.
Write your first job script
The script builder generates a ready-to-submit sbatch file.
Check the software catalog
57 packages with per-cluster availability and module names.
Drop into office hours
Mondays and Fridays, 1 to 2 PM on Zoom, fall and spring.
Clinical researcher
Working with patient data, compliantly, from cohort to publication.
Scope your cohort
TriNetX counts eligible patients in minutes, and no PHI leaves the platform.
Request clinical data
EDW extracts through the honest-broker process.
Capture study data
REDCap for surveys and case report forms.
Store it compliantly
IRB-gated storage approved for PHI.
Compute on PHI
ClinWulf, the HIPAA-aligned cluster.
Share beyond your team
DeID review and honest broker before anything leaves the study team.
External collaborator
For collaborators outside Stony Brook joining a project here, and for PIs sponsoring an external collaborator on their study.
Get a collaborator account
Sponsored accounts for external partners on the clusters.
Receive shared files
BOX collaboration invitations work with non-SBU emails.
Move big datasets
Globus handles large, restartable transfers between institutions.
Know the data rules
PHI never moves without a DUA and honest-broker review.
Find your contact
The RCI team, by service area.
None of these fit?
Someone on the team can point you the right way, no ticket needed.