Consulting


Research Data Consulting

The SDSC Research Data Services team leverages decades of technical experience and a wealth of UC institutional knowledge to provide expert administration and troubleshooting services within a fee-for-service model to UC San Diego, the UC system as a whole, and UC affiliates.

Consulting is most commonly used by research labs and other groups on the UC San Diego campus as a way to maximize research resources. By relying on the SDSC Research Data Services team to render services only when necessary, Research Data Consulting users afford top-tier research data support without having to devote lab staff to partial time technical support duties that may be outside their areas of expertise.

As the first GO FAIR office in the United States, SDSC Research Data Services now offers FAIR data consulting services.

To get Research Data Consulting services, send a request to services@sdsc.edu.

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service Unit UC Rate Non-UC Rate

Tier I Consulting Services

Desktop and laptop administration, application installation and configuration, troubleshooting

Hour $80 $116.00

Tier II Consulting Services

Server administration, application installation and configuration, troubleshooting

Hour $96 $139.20

Tier III Consulting Services

Storage administration, application installation and configuration, troubleshooting

Hour $99 $143.55

System Administration (UNIX and Windows)

The Research Data Services team offers physical server administration as a service to datacenter colocation users. While the datacenter team provides basic hardware maintenance service, such as drive swaps, the RDS team’s service includes advanced OS and software maintenance.

For more information, see Colocation services.

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service Unit UC Rate Non-UC Rate
Server Administration Consulting

Application installation, configuration, troubleshooting

Hour $96 $139.20

Technical Consulting

SDSC consultants have experience in computational science and engineering on a variety of vector and parallel platforms. Our consultants are available to assist users with issues related to SDSC computational resources.

To get HPC consulting services, send a request to consult@sdsc.edu.

For Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) consulting services, contact tscc-support@ucsd.edu.


Computational & Applied Statistics Laboratory (CASL)

Under the direction of Anthony Gamst, Ph.D., CASL provides general statistical consulting, including expertise and service in:

  • mathematical modeling
  • machine learning
  • functional data analysis
  • analysis of high-dimensional data
  • non-parametric and semi-parametric regression
  • application of quasi-likelihood and mixed effects models
  • analysis of biomarker, imaging, laboratory, and multi-sensor data

To get CASL services, send a request to casl@ucsd.edu.

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service Unit UC Rate Non-UC Rate
CASL Contract Hour $70 Contact for rates
CASL Consulting Hour $99 Contact for rates
Engineering Contract Hour $110 Contact for rates
Engineering Consulting Hour $145 Contact for rates

Cybersecurity

Consulting services offered by the SDSC Cybersecurity Group include:

  • Secure architecture development
  • Intrusion detection
  • Vulnerability assessments
  • Central log collection
  • Event alerting
  • System hardening
  • Security assessments
  • Configuration of firewalls rules
  • Security lifecycle documentation development
  • Risk assessments

For more information, see the SDSC Cybersecurity Group website.


Enterprise Networking

The expert Enterprise Network Service (ENS) team at SDSC uses extensive experience to provide Consulting services to SDSC datacenter customers and interested affiliated parties. ENS is happy to provide solutions for hardware, configuration, and any other network-related concerns.

ENS also maintains the San Diego Network Access Point (SD-NAP), which is a neutral network traffic exchange facility where local data service providers exchange internet traffic. Major SD-NAP connections include ISPs, Internet2, and CENIC, which ensure that SDSC Colocation and other service users enjoy high performance connections to external networks.

To get Enterprise Networking services, send a request to services@sdsc.edu.


Spatial Data Consulting

  • Data management, analysis, visualization and modeling for spatial data
  • Spatial data science and GeoAI
  • Geographic Information Systems and online mapping
  • Coding spatial analysis solutions using open-source and commercial (ArcGIS) libraries
  • Large-scale systems for spatial data integration
  • Data management and online visual analytics with SuAVE, including:
    • Setting up and analyzing surveys and image collections online
    • Generation and analysis of bibliographic and other networks

To get Spatial Data Consulting services, send a request to izaslavsky@ucsd.edu.

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service Unit UC Rate Non-UC Rate
Spatial Data Consultant 1 Hour $130.87 Contact us for rates.
Spatial Data Consultant 2 Hour $156.30 Contact us for rates.
Spatial Data Consultant Assistant Hour $34.61 Contact us for rates.
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