Research IT
provides research data and computing technologies, consulting, and community for the UC Berkeley campus. Our goal is to advance research through IT innovation.

Status and Service Updates
Mon, 10/26/2026: Savio Maintenance
We need to schedule a planned outage for one day affecting the Savio cluster in order to fix an issue in lustre that has been causing sporadic inactive OSTs on the login nodes and compute nodes as well as some general node maintenance and repairs. We have a slurm node reservation in place for on Monday, October 26.
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Welcome to the Fall 2026 Research IT Newsletter!
Welcome to the Fall 2026 Research IT Newsletter!
We are excited to announce that Jason Christopher has been named Acting Director of Research IT. Jason brings a great depth of experience to this role, and over the last decade, has served in various positions within...Read more about Welcome to the Fall 2026 Research IT Newsletter!
Research IT Model Train Club
Are you working with AI models now, or interested in getting started?
Most AI models run on the Cloud, but an increasing number of models can also be run on local, desktop hardware, with Linux and Windows operating systems -- NVIDIA DGX Spark, Dell Pro Max, Asus Ascent, Lenovo...Read more about Research IT Model Train Club
Jason Christopher as Acting Director of Research IT
Welcome to the Fall 2026 Research IT newsletter!
We are excited to announce that Jason Christopher has been named Acting...Read more about Jason Christopher as Acting Director of Research IT




