Information Technology
As a researcher, you have access to a world of IT support and resources. Below are the most commonly used IT and research resources on campus. For more information on all available IT services, feel free to browse our service catalog.
The University of Florida provides a number of technology platforms in support of UF researchers.
The LabArchives Research Edition Notebook helps researchers manage the results of research efforts, record and document research processes and procedures, and manage digital research data in ways that increase reproducibility, efficiency, collaboration, searchability, and security. The University of Florida has purchased an enterprise license for the LabArchives Research Notebook for use by faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students in performing research activities. LabArchives is securely accessible via the internet from anywhere in the world using a web browser on any device.
LabArchives is an Electronic Research Notebook on the market with multiple built-in widgets for optimal customization. It offers flexible permissions and roles for sharing notebooks, pages, and entries, even with researchers outside of UF. A timestamp and record of every user and action is created, which cannot be deleted. Additionally, it has tools that enable compliance with funding agencies’ data management requirements and is the only Electronic Research Notebook service provider that is approved for Internet2 higher education member universities.
Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor available to UF faculty, staff and students. It offers real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, online compiling of projects to PDF format, and more.
UFIT Research Computing (RC) provides comprehensive high performance computing resources and user support for University of Florida researchers and their collaborators.
HiPerGator is the University of Florida supercomputer. It is approved for data and processing of open data. To work with Protected Health Information (PHI ) or Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Restricted data follow the Policies and Procedures outlined on our website. For PHI data the process requires a risk assessment.
Note: Must be on campus or VPN to access the Archer App.
Computing resources The University of Florida HiPerGator is a supercomputing cluster with more than 100,000 CPU cores, over 1700 Nvidia GPUs, and many petabytes of high performance storage. It is also equipped with the latest generation of Intel and AMD processors as well as Nvidia GPUs including the world’s most advanced AI system - the Nvidia DGX SuperPOD. In addition, there are more than 1500 software tools, frameworks, and libraries installed on HiPerGator for users to conduct research in areas such as engineering, high energy physics, chemistry, bioinformatics, social sciences, and in machine learning and deep learning.
Research Computing also operates the HiPerGator-RV system for secure computing on restricted data such as export controlled and medical data. This system provides a FISMA Moderate (NIST 800-53) and NIST 800-171 compliant environment safeguarding user data.
User support Research Computing provides professional user support on the usage of HiPerGator. This includes online help and documentation, in-person and online training, office hours for walk-in support, a user support ticket system, and in-depth research project consulting. To facilitate the campus-wide AI initiative, the RC AI Support Team provides AI focused services in research, teaching and learning in a variety of AI topics at different levels. Grant proposal support is also available to help researchers preparing for their grants.