{"id":2290,"date":"2025-09-03T22:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/?page_id=2290"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:16:13","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About the SHIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">If you have ever worked with EHR data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/tracs.unc.edu\/index.php\/services\/informatics-and-data-science\/cdw-h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carolina Data Warehouse for Health (CDWH)<\/a> in the past, the SHIRE is our eventual <strong>replacement for the network drive<\/strong> where you\u2019re used to finding your datasets.<\/p>\n<p>For users, the SHIRE looks and feels just like working on a Windows or Linux personal computer. You will get to that computer using your web browser. Once you log in, your research data will be there waiting for you. A large variety of <strong>analytical tools are pre-installed<\/strong> or easy for users to install themselves (e.g., RStudio, SAS, Jupyter, VSCode, Databricks, etc.), so that you can do all your work inside the SHIRE. The SHIRE can also support <strong>multiple users on one project<\/strong>, all working on the same shared data.<\/p>\n<p>The SHIRE is unique in that it supports <strong>scalable computing<\/strong>. For small, straightforward projects, researchers can use a small amount of compute, akin to the power of a laptop. For big data projects or projects using AI or machine learning, the SHIRE can offer access to compute clusters and even GPUs. Users only <strong>pay for the amount of computing appropriate to their project<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For users, the SHIRE looks and feels just like working on a Windows or Linux personal computer. You will get to that computer using your web browser. Once you log in, your research data will be there waiting for you. A large variety of analytical tools are pre-installed or easy for users to install themselves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/about-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about About the SHIRE\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55643,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2290\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/shire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}