Welcome to AST Research Support Services

The Research Support team at UMDNJ is a collaboration between Academic Services and Technologies (AST) within IST and the Informatics Institute. The mission of this joint venture is to provide support for the many various complex scientific computing applications and complex high performance storage and computing needs of today's academic researcher. The technologies involved are highly dynamic and constantly evolving. The research support team has the challenging role of keeping abreast of these technologies along with maintenance of hardware and software. In addition, the research support team provides training to UMDNJ faculty/staff either in the form of workshops/tutorials or on an individual basis. Research support scientists will provide consultation on research projects and, on a more limited basis, collaboration.

Large File Transfer Service (LiFT) documentation available here. The website is available here. To login UMDNJ users must use their email address and portal password.

Research Consultation Services - Consultation is available to researchers with specialized research computing needs. Click here to request a consult.

Computer Assets Description

"The University is equipped with a SunFire 6900 multiple cpu server that has 24 dual-core 1.2 GHz CPUs. The SunFire is fibre-linked to a storage area network, a Sun StorEdge 6320, with 8 TB of available storage. In addition, the University has computer labs on both main campuses (Newark and Piscataway) that link via network to the Informatics Institute computer graphics lab. The Informatics Institute has a computer graphics instructional lab equipped with 14 Dell workstations running RedHat Linux."

Facilities description info for grants (MS Word doc)

For more information, review the Research Services and Related Links menus to the left or contact:

Leslie P. Michelson, Ph.D.
(973) 972-4558
Leslie.Michelson@umdnj.edu.

John E. Kerrigan, Ph.D.
(732) 235-4473
kerrigje@umdnj.edu.

Informatics Institute contact:
Bruce Byrne, Ph.D.
(856) 757-7788
byrne@umdnj.edu.