Research Computing Office
Research Computing Office
Our team helps researchers succeed through central research computing and enabling the use of AI in seeking and accelerating big discoveries.
RCO will provide a singular web page and portal (under construction) for access to our coordinated research computing, supercomputing, and AI services.
The Division of Research and Innovation and University Information and Technology have partnered to launch the Research Computing Office on January 1. Built on extensive Research Computing 2030 Task Force recommendations, the RCO reflects OSU’s commitment to expanding our research capacity, strengthening collaboration, and positioning the university as a regional and national leader in research computing and AI.
The RCO will provide centralized resources and coordination and is ramping up to bring these services online throughout 2026. Current efforts include preparing for the incoming NVIDIA supercomputer in the Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex and unifying existing and new computing resources and support services.
Mission and Goals
The Research Computing Office serves all of OSU’s researchers who are research-active in the broadest of terms.
Our mission is to increase the success of OSU researchers in achieving their research objectives, obtaining external funding, and contributing to Prosperity Widely Shared through enhanced support for the use of AI, data sciences, supercomputing, and other research computing methods.
Our overarching goal is to put into place a research computing ecosystem for the university that fully supports high-performance computing, accelerated computing and supercomputing, edge computing, machine learning, generative and physical AI, digital twins, and more.
Goals & Impacts for Researchers
OSU is moving on a collective path forward, reflecting a shared commitment to the Research Computing Office that will provide equitable access to cutting-edge research computing and AI technologies, across all OSU campuses and within its colleges, research centers and institutes, laboratories, core facilities, experiment stations, and administrative units.
Integration
Enable researchers to work, collaborate, and access research computing resources across disciplines and academic units.
Support
Wrap human and training resources around computing resources, offering support for different expertise levels and disciplines.
Scale & Impact
Manage the resources and investments of the university and its researchers in a coordinated manner to benefit from economies of scale.
Competitiveness
Coordinate, manage, and develop the research computing ecosystem in a manner that responds to the changing requirements for successful pursuit of research challenges and external funding.
Effective Resource Use
Maximize the computing capacity available through effective management of data center funding, electrical power, cooling, and space.
Sustainability
Manage computing resources and services to be financially sustainable, ensuring continuity of support and training services.
Equity
Provide all researchers with access to a common baseline amount of research computing resources and support.
Diversity
Recognize and support the need for the use and testing of specialized and novel research computing systems.
Research Computing 2030 Task Force
In 2023-24, a 12-member task force, primarily comprised of faculty, reviewed OSU’s research computing organizational model and compared OSU to 13 peer universities. Their review revealed a trend toward centralization to increase success with larger research opportunities, and based on their review, the task force made eight recommendations, all adopted by OSU.
Through the creation of the Research Computing Office and other steps, the university has already acted on those recommendations and will continue to make additional progress.
Governance & Advisory Groups
The Research Computing Office will be governed by three groups: two advisory and one with executive oversight. We are actively forming and expanding those three groups to ensure a varied representation from OSU units and communities who are contributing to the research enterprise.