CollectionSpace 4.5 released

Submitted by Ray Lee on July 31, 2017

Version 4.5 of CollectionSpace, an open source collections management system, was released on July 20, 2017. Research IT maintains installations of CollectionSpace for several museums on campus, spanning a variety of disciplines including art, botany, and anthropology.

Sociologist uses Docker to switch workflows with ease

Submitted by Erica Chen on July 26, 2017

As both a visiting doctoral candidate at UCLA’s Department of Sociology and a lecturer in the School of Information’s Master of Information and Data Science program (MIDS), Brooks Ambrose needed an efficient way to organize and switch between his different workflows throughout the day.

Research IT Reading Group: now with remote participation

Submitted by Steve Masover on July 14, 2017

Since April 2013, Research IT has hosted a biweekly reading group open to anyone affiliated with UC Berkeley, to discuss research projects, technology that supports research, and topics that concern research and technology in higher ed.

Research IT Awarded Grant for 3D Visualization Project with the Hearst Museum

Submitted by Erica Chen on July 12, 2017

Photogrammetry in progress for display in the HearstCAVE

The Student Technology Fund committee at UC Berkeley recently awarded Research IT a grant for the two-year project, Student 3D/Visualization Teams for Campus Museums, which will be run in collaboration with the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA).

Research IT's Quinn Dombrowski steps up to lead BRC Consulting

Submitted by Jason C. Christopher on July 7, 2017

Research IT’s Quinn Dombrowski is the new service manager for BRC Consulting as of July 1, 2017. Dombrowski brings a wealth of consulting experience and leadership to her new role.

Research IT Staff Present at UC Berkeley CaVraCon

Submitted by Erica Chen on June 27, 2017

3D model of Egyptian sarcophagus constructed using photogrammetry software

Emerging image technologies took digital humanities to new heights in this year’s statewide CaVraCon [1], the biennial California Visual Resources Association Conference, which is affiliated with the Visual Resources Association. Librarians, archivists, and scholars gathered at UC Berkeley to discuss developments and issues in the field of image and media management.

BRC Staff to present at PEARC 2017

Submitted by Erica Chen on June 23, 2017

This July, Research IT will be sending three staff members to New Orleans for the first national Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference.

Welcome to Berkeley Research Computing's Summer 2017 Interns

Submitted by Erica Chen on June 22, 2017

Research IT welcomes a UX/Visualization intern, a Journalism and Outreach intern, and two Coding/Database interns to the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) team for summer 2017. Cassie Zhang, our returning UX/Visualization intern, will be implementing a “dashboard” for the Savio High Performance Compute cluster, a project continuing from spring 2017.

Challenges and Opportunities of VM Image Curation and Discovery

Submitted by Patrick Schmitz on June 21, 2017

Virtual Machine (VM) images are being used more and more widely, across a range of research computation services. With the increasing creation and adoption of VM images, there is a need for maintenance regimes, discovery mechanisms, and curation practices to support researchers whose focus is on the use of these images, not their creation and upkeep.

Prof. Rachel Slaybaugh optimizes next-generation nuclear reactor design on BRC’s Savio cluster

Submitted by Steve Masover on June 13, 2017

It was her inner environmentalist that lured Asst. Professor Rachel Slaybaugh to Nuclear Engineering. “I have always been an environmentalist,” she explained. “When I was a freshman at Penn State I heard about this existing, large-scale, base load electricity source that didn’t emit air pollution, and I thought -- well, that sounds like a great way to get rid of coal plants -- I’m going to do that.” What Slaybaugh had heard about was nuclear power, which led to her B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State, then a Master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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