What's Included
Data Core is intended primarily for faculty and their collaborators, including student projects or instruction. It is designed to facilitate and streamline research and analysis by providing the following services:
- Securely store and customize researcher access to data in accordance with access restrictions from data use agreements, IRB protocols, and other constraints relevant to the type of data
- Provide a shared workspace for members of a research team to ensure all researchers are working with the most up-to-date information, including common reference data. This includes non-Weill Cornell collaborators
- Hold source data in read-only format to prevent overwriting
- Enable software applications for research and analytics (see list below)
- Eliminate duplicative or less secure data management methods (such as local and remote data storage and computing)
- Simplify research data management
- Eligibility for metadata management capabilities as they are developed.
Additional Features
- Default Windows 2016 environment, though others are possible with potentially additional setup cost, including associated relational database.
- Centrally managed login using Weill Cornell CWID authentication. Non-WCM collaborators may request a CWID through their WCM Sponsor.
- Remote access (i.e. from anywhere outside the WCM network) is restricted and only available via RemoteApps
- File sharing services for project resources including source data, reference data where applicable, group analytical data, group workspaces, and individual workspaces
- Data transfer upon request, in accordance with data governance plans
- Data archiving upon project completion, also in accordance with data governance plan (cost only for appropriate storage services). The Data Core team can assist with certain aspects of making data public, with potential charges depending on what is needed.
- Direct technical support by submitting a Data Core Work Request
Monthly Base Service (for Shared, On-Premise computing environment)
| 1st user (PI or Instructor) | $275 |
| 2nd user | $210 |
| 3rd user | $150 |
| 4th user | $95 |
| 5th user | $40 |
| Additional or classroom users | $20 |
STORAGE (monthly, for data and user files)
- Storage rates will be billed directly to your Data Core project account
| Primary data: | $1.25 per 100 GB |
| Derivative data: read/write with 6 hourly snapshots and daily replication | $10.00 per 100 GB |
| Direct server-attached storage, no backup | $9.17 per 100 GB |
OPTIONAL OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
The software listed below can be installed at no charge to the user. Note that projects containing PHI are not usually permitted to have internet access, and thus all non-standard libraries that are also needed to be installed need to be specified at the time of the request. The CRAN repository is mirrored internally to Data Core, allowing users to self-install R packages even when internet access is not available
| Application |
|---|
| Jupyter |
| Python |
| R/R-Studio |
OPTIONAL DATABASE
| Setup fee | $500 |
| Monthly DB hosting rate per 2 CPU | $220 |
View FY26 Rates (effective July 1, 2025)
Service Requirements
- WCM CWID
- For customized computing and storage needs, including Cloud hosting and GPU computation, to accommodate PHI, email the Data Core team directly at dcore-ticket@med.cornell.edu