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The D-Lab has announced the formation of a new Cloud Computing Working Group starting in Fall 2015, in collaboration with the ...Read more about Researchers and staff tackle cloud computing challenges in new D-Lab working group

Research IT and the Library welcome Jamie Wittenberg to UC Berkeley and to their joint Research Data Management program team. Jamie recently completed her Master of Science in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As the Service Design Analyst in the...Read more about Welcoming Jamie Wittenberg

At the end of June, Research IT said farewell and best of luck to Glen Jackson, our colleague who retired after more than 20 years of service to UC Berkeley. Glen was the last remaining original team member of the Museum Informatics Project, an initiative that set out in the early 1990's to...Read more about Farewell and thanks to Glen Jackson

The campus’ Savio computing cluster received a major storage upgrade on June 12, 2015, when its Global Scratch file system was quadrupled in size, to a massive 885 terabytes (TB) of storage. The...Read more about Savio cluster storage quadrupled to support Big Data research

LYRASIS announced the release of Version 4.2 of CollectionSpace, its open source, web-based museums collections management and information system, on June 24, 2015. This...Read more about CollectionSpace 4.2 adds Fine & Contemporary Arts Profile, Exhibition support

In Spring 2015 Biostatistics Professor Lexin Li decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform to teach Big Data concepts and practices to graduate students in the School of Public Health....Read more about BRC supports cloud computing for Public Health Big Data course

Please welcome RJ (Ruijing) Li and Regina Xu, UC Berkeley students who have joined the UCB CollectionSpace team for the summer. Regina and RJ are undergraduates majoring in Computer Science. They have completed the initial CS61...Read more about Two student employees join CollectionSpace for the summer

Research IT welcomes IT Architect Jason Christopher to our team. Jason will be working on both the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) and the Research Data...Read more about Research IT welcomes Jason Christopher

On June 9th, Research IT leadership presented on the group’s new and ongoing initiatives at a well-attended session of the One IT Summit. This year’s Summit spanned three days, and included a wide variety of...Read more about RIT presents on new, ongoing initiatives at One IT Summit

For updated news from the September 24, 2015 Town Hall, please see Town Hall spotlights new services for researchers, Savio expansion.

...Read more about Town Hall on launch of BRC Faculty Computing Allowance