DFCI Research Computing purchases and maintains file servers for the use of the DFCI Research Community.

Anyone in a DFCI Research Lab may request an account.

If your lab needs a new share, please make this request through our [ request system ]. The share can be for user or machine-generated data, but it's important for us to understand your needs before configuring the space.
If your lab already has storage, you can request an account on one of our servers by following this link

At times, the specific storage needs of a lab producing image or other raw data may exceed our capacity. In such cases, we may ask the lab to help in the purchasing of additional storage. (As of today -- June, 2009 -- storage has become very inexpensive. The most recent server we purchased has a 48 Tb capacity and a cost of less than $13,000.

Or servers are all backed up regularly. See our backup description page.