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How to Request Access

Request a consultation, new account, or modify your current account by selecting the RAE Acct/User/Study Request Form or contacting the UCSF IT Service Desk at (415) 514-4100.

RAE is available 24/7 except Tuesday evenings from 6–11:59 p.m. for system maintenance.

Support

Join the UCTech Slack channel #ucsf-rae to meet a community of peers and find the latest information about weekly office hours.

RAE users also have access to step-by-step documentation in the RAE support training library within MyTransfer.

Use the RAE Help System to easily generate a support ticket.


Description

UCSF's Research Analysis Environment (RAE) is a secure data hosting and compute service for UCSF researchers and their internal or external collaborators.

Formerly known as MyResearch, RAE provides compute, storage, and tools in a secure, compliant platform across three product tiers to meet the community's diverse research needs.

  • RAE Free: Shared compute, storage, and tools to meet most research needs.
  • RAE Premium: Dedicated compute and storage for study-specific large datasets.
  • RAE Cloud: Access to secure AWS resources for compute and storage.

RAE provides research teams with a professionally managed, secure, collaborative environment in which to manage files containing sensitive data. RAE also provides remote desktop capability with applications that allow investigators to view, manipulate, and save their data entirely in a protected environment without requiring files to be stored on their own computers.

RAE is available to all UCSF students, faculty, staff, and any non-UCSF collaborators who are sponsored by a member of our community. Researchers log into RAE using their UCSF login and Duo multi-factor authentication.
 

Use cases

RAE Free
  • Smaller studies
  • Performance around a desktop
  • Collaborative
  • Meets most researchers’ needs
RAE Premium
  • High performance
  • Dedicated non-shared environment for your study
  • Expandable compute
  • Consultation around configurations
  • Larger and increased performance storage
  • Windows or Ubuntu (cli only)
  • Customized software installs - support for your software
RAE Cloud
  • Shorter term projects
  • Ability to quickly scale up and down
  • Faster provisioning
  • Windows or Ubuntu
  • Machine learning
  • Customized software installs - support for your software

 

Features

  Free Premium Cloud
Office and Publication Applications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics and Data Analysis Tools
Yes
Programming and Development Environments
GIS Tools
Sensitive Data Marts
(e.g. cTAKES, CDW, LDS, CORDS)
Amazon Web Services
No
No
Cost Free
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RAE- Free specifications and cost

RAE Free provides users with access to analytical applications in a shared environment and comes with 100Gb of storage. Additional storage will be recharged at the standard datacenter rates of 0.13c Gb per month including backups.

RAE- Premium specifications and cost

The RAE team offers the following dedicated virtual machines, powered on 24x7 supporting a collaboration team. These are fully managed NIST 800-171 compliant machines which included OS license, Patching, backup, application installation and support. Our team works to "right size" the workloads and will adjust these specifications when needed.

RAE Premium name CPU RAM Disk $ per month
Small 4 16 500Gb (OS) $300
Medium 8 32+ 500Gb (OS) + up to 10Tb attached $700
Large 16 64+ 500Gb (OS) + up to 20Tb attached $1300

 

RAE- Free supported Tools and Applications

 

Note: Applications such as SAS or Excel run on the RAE servers in a secure data center, but they appear on the user’s own screen as if they were running locally on the user’s computer.

Programming, File System, and Development
File Explorer File manager that allows access to preview, sort, and modify files and folders stored in RAE
Matlab High-level language and interactive environment
Notepad++ Free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages
Spyder IDE for the Python language with advanced editing, testing, debugging, and introspection features
Visual Studio IDE for Microsoft Development (.NET, .VB, Java, Python, C++, JS, TypeScript, and more) with IntelliSense
SQL Server Studio (SSMS) IDE and tools for managing, querying, designing, and monitoring SQL infrastructure and databases

 

Statistics and Data Analysis
Access Microsoft's database management system which includes a graphical user interface, software-development tools, and support for interaction with varied data sources
Amos Graphics SPSS tool suite for visualizing structural equation modeling and other multivariate analysis
ATLAS.ti Suite of tools supporting annotation and analysis of written texts, audio, video, and graphic data
Excel Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application that features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications
MAE Text Annotations General purpose text annotation tool for NLP with XML outputs
Matlab High-level language and interactive environment
R, RStudio Advanced statistical capabilities as well as a feature-rich programmatic platform to run complex analysis and reporting jobs
SAS 9.4 Software suite for advanced analytics, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analytics
SAS Enterprise Guide Point and click, menu, and wizard-driven tool that provides a guided mechanism to use SAS
SAS XML Mapper XML map support tool
SPSS Software suite supporting planning, graphics, data collection, analysis, reporting, and deployment
Stata Software suite supporting planning, graphics, data collection, analysis, reporting, and deployment
STAT/Transfer Convert data and spreadsheet files from one format to another quickly and reliably
TreeAge Pro Allows you to build decision trees to analyze a research problem; analysis tools allow you to calculate the expected value of each strategy and choose the optimal path

 

GIS
ArcGis Pro Esri’s desktop GIS application to perform powerful geospatial analytics and map-making. ArcGIS Pro is the premier GIS software to geocode patient data, overlay environmental and demographic data, use spatial statistics to identify clusters (hot spot analysis), perform spatial queries, build models to automate tasks, built-in Jupyter Notebook, design map layouts with charts and graphs, and publish maps and 3D scenes.
ArcMap Esri’s legacy desktop GIS. This product is no longer receiving updates and users are strongly encouraged to move their projects to ArcGIS Pro.
StreetMap Premium (Batch Geocoding) High-quality street network and point-of-interest data for North America (USA, Canada, and Mexico) to perform batch geocoding of patient data and files with address records.

Additional ArcGIS licensing can be requested here.

 

Office and Publishing
PowerPoint Create slide show presentations
Project Project management software to assist in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads
Visio Imaging program to create high quality diagrams that can represent databases, flowcharts, network architecture, org charts, floor plans, calendars, engineering schematics, and more
Word Word processing program and desktop publishing platform
  • Service Manager: Rhett Hillary
  • Service Owner Team: ITS ARS Level3 Apps
  • Service Support Team: ITS ARS Level3 Apps
  • Audience: Affiliate, Faculty, Staff, Student, Technical Partner
  • Service Category: Research Services
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