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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
Statistics and Data Analysis Tools
Programming and Development Environments
GIS Tools
Sensitive Data Marts (e.g. cTAKES, CDW, LDS, CORDS)
Amazon Web Services
Cost	Free
Performance
Storage

 

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