Research

• Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
  ARC provides access to—and support for—advanced computing resources. ARC facilitates new and more powerful approaches to research challenges in fields ranging from physics to linguistics, and from engineering to medicine.
  • U-M Research Computing Package
    Simple, dependable access to several ITS-provided high-performance computing clusters and data storage resources.
  • Great Lakes HPC Cluster
    On the Great Lakes cluster, you pay only for what you use, enabling researchers to have faster access to HPC services.
  • Lighthouse HPC Cluster for Researcher-Provided Hardware
    Lighthouse HPC supports researchers with grants that require the purchase of computing hardware or require hardware configurations not supported on the Great Lakes cluster.
  • Armis2 HPC Cluster for Sensitive Data (HIPAA)
    Armis2 provides a secure, scalable, and distributed computing environment that aligns with HIPAA privacy standards.
• Networking for Researchers
  ​Data intensive science requires a mix of compute, storage, and networking technologies. ITS is committed that our network should never be the bottleneck to your research needs.
• eResearch
  Electronic research administration, including research business office operations.
  • Regulatory Management
    Institutional review and approval for human subjects, repository, and biosafety.
  • Proposal Management
    Proposal submissions for external funding, award management, unfunded agreements, and clinical trial routing forms.
  • eRAM
    Animal and controlled substance management.
  • M-Inform
    Conflict of interest management.
  • MiCORES
    Resource management system for research core requests, including shared supplies, equipment, instrumentation, facilities, services, expertise, and other technology.
  • InfoReady
    Streamlines the application, review, and approval process for internal funding opportunities, fellowships, awards, competitions, and events.
• Virtru for Gmail
  Virtru allows you to send end-to-end encrypted email for sensitive research data.
• MiVideo
  Organize, catalog, share, search, and publish multimedia content. Management consoles make it easy to tag and filter content, as well as control access.
• Qualtrics at U-M
  Qualtrics is an online survey platform and tool with features including survey creation, distribution, analysis, and storage available to all U-M faculty, staff, and students.
• PrivaScope
  Access operational IT systems data while maintaining individual privacy.
• Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarship (PEERRS)
  Training and assessment on research and scholarship ethical issues.
• U-M API Directory
  API publishing and subscription service facilitating secure and authorized access to institutional data for use in research and applications.

Information Security

• Sensitive Data Guide
  Make informed decisions about where to safely store and share sensitive research data.
• Minimum Information Security Requirements
  Identify minimum security requirements for your system or application.

Additional Information

• Get Connected
  A guide to U-M technology resources and services for faculty, staff, and researchers.
• Remote Resource Guide
  If you need to connect remotely, these resources are available to help you bring your university work to you.