Technical resources

The Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) manages or partners with other university teams to co-manage research-specific, cutting-edge technologies to power scientific discovery across the university.

Learn about Amarel, a “condominium” style computing environment developed to serve the university’s wide-ranging research and storage needs, and designed to suit many different research applications. Sign up for an Amarel account.

Amarel

A secure, HIPAA-compliant central repository that includes diverse healthcare data and essential analytical tools for gaining insights into medical conditions, outcomes, and treatments.

CRDW

Research Electronic Data Capture, known as REDCap, is a research-enabling web platform for building online databases and surveys. It offers Rutgers researchers a secure environment for collecting and managing that survey data.

REDCap

An on-premise system designed to support short- and long-term data storage. Available to all researchers, RDS is optimized for cost-effectiveness, performance, and reliable access to research data.

Research Data Storage

Data storage options

Rutgers offers a variety of data storage platforms and services. Best fit for your project can be assessed using the Data Storage Finder based on storage capacity, capability to handle sensitive data, computational resources, and cost considerations.

Data storage options

Amarel Protected Environment (PE)

Amarel PE is a high performance research computing and analytics system within CRDW used for research and education projects that require access to and working with sensitive and/or controlled data.

Amarel protected environment