Success stories from BRC’s undergraduate ops internship program

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on December 21, 2017

A new team of undergraduate interns joined the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) team this fall, and quickly became an indispensable part of Savio cluster operations. The BRC Ops Intern Program was conceived as a pilot for a BRC undergraduate fellowship program, currently in development, that will provide UC Berkeley students with hands-on experience in HPC system operations, user support, and software engineering.

Summit Explores Reach, Inclusion

Submitted by Rick Jaffe on November 21, 2017

The fifth bi-annual Consulting Summit on November 7 brought together academic support staff and librarians from across the campus to compare experiences providing help to instructors and researchers, and to explore the topic of inclusion and diversity in the services they provide.

BRC interns present at SLURM User Group

Submitted by Erica Chen on November 20, 2017

BRC interns Sahil Hasan and Harrison Kuo present to the SLURM Users Group meeting, Sept 2017

Over the past year, our 2017 interns at Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) have been hard at work developing a banking system in SLURM, Savio’s cluster management and job scheduling system, in response to user input.

Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2017

Submitted by Steve Masover on November 17, 2017

Snowflake, by Alexey Kljatov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia

Much of the UC Berkeley campus will be closed, or operating on modified schedules, during the Holiday Energy Curtailment period from December 25, 2017 to January 1, 2018.

Research IT services and support will be operating during this period as follows:

Cloud Working Group November 2017 Update

Submitted by Aaron Culich on November 6, 2017

In Research IT we believe building partnerships is a key part of growing and sustaining a thriving ecosystem for campus research computing. Our efforts to support cloud computing are one of several ways that we work to build community on our campus, across the UC system, and beyond.

Botanist finds a bioinformatic home in Savio

Submitted by Erica Chen on October 5, 2017

Ingrid Jordon-Thaden gathering specimens

Before her research led to an appointment as a Research Botanist at The University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley, Ingrid Jordon-Thaden graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Heidelberg, Germany. When she left Heidelberg, she took with her not only a PhD, but also the beginnings of her research on the genetic history of the genus Draba, in the mustard family.

HearstCAVE project presents at ATXpo

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on October 4, 2017

Gallant Lab neuroscientists map the human brain using OpenStack and Amazon S3

Submitted by Erica Chen on October 3, 2017

The Gallant Lab's "Brain Viewer " (screenshot)

How might matter give rise to subjective experience? This question helps drive the Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley to find explanations to the mysteries of neuroscience. The Gallant Lab focuses much of its research on functional cartography of the brain, mapping areas of the brain that are involved in cognitive or motor functions.

Welcoming Amy Neeser, RDM Program Manager

Submitted by Christopher R. HOFFMAN on October 2, 2017

Research IT and the Library are happy to welcome Amy Neeser to UCB as our new Research Data Management Program Manager. Amy joins UCB from the University of Michigan where she was the Research Data Curation Librarian. Amy has a joint appointment with the Library and Research IT and has desks in the library Data Lab (Doe 189) and Warren Hall.

Helping Scientists Understand Research Cyber Risks

Submitted by Patrick Schmitz on September 25, 2017

A recent post on the UC IT Blog makes clear the security threat to University researchers: “Cyber attacks don’t just hit big corporations or governments or hospitals. Anything connected to networks is vulnerable, and that includes research and open science.”

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