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Increasingly, the scale of data analysis means that computation can no longer be carried out on a laptop — often the only resource easily available to researchers. And while the...Read more about Sociology research on climate change reporting accelerated by AEoD virtual environments

With a mix of sadness and cheer, we bid Aron Roberts a fond farewell from UC Berkeley, as he retires from the university and pursues other endeavors in the private sector. For the last eight years, Aron has worked with Research IT, and its predecessor, Data Services, as an Application...Read more about Thank You, Aron Roberts!

As a physics student at Princeton University, Assistant Professor Carl Boettiger had no intention of working with computers: he says he was essentially “pulled in by accident.” During his time as an undergraduate, Boettiger gradually broadened his interests from physics, which he believed to be...Read more about Notebook environments support Prof. Carl Boettiger's ecosystem modeling and data sharing

The bDrive repository offers everyone at UC Berkeley unlimited storage, strong search capabilities, and mobile access. This storage is an important data management resource for research teams. The ...Read more about Using rclone to transfer data to bDrive

As a Digital Humanities Project Archivist, Julie van den Hout has made good use of the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Program’s free, virtualized instance of...Read more about Digitizing 17th century Dutch documents

Graduating from UC Berkeley as a cognitive science major in 2006, conservation biologist Paul Elsen would have never guessed that he would return to Berkeley a decade later to become a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Following completion...Read more about ESPM postdoc crosses 150 years of observational biology with satellite data to mitigate biodiversity loss

We are glad and grateful to announce that Patrick Schmitz, Associate Director of Research IT, has received an Excellence in Management Award from the...Read more about Patrick Schmitz receives 2017 Excellence in Management Award

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) is pleased to announce the addition of PhD student Oliver Muellerklein to the...Read more about Oliver Muellerklein joins BRC as a domain consultant

Since his college days at Brigham Young University (BYU), Adam Anderson has been measuring evenings and weekends in pages, rather than hours. “You can scan about 400 pages an hour, once you get in the groove,” he explains. Anderson, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at UC...Read more about Digital Humanist aims to run OCR over a terabyte of rare book scans

Ray Lee of UC Berkeley’s Research IT department is the lead for the CollectionSpace UI rewrite project, code-named “Drydock.” The following piece describes progress in improving advanced search and record-relating functionality in CollectionSpace. This work is funded by a recent grant from...Read more about CollectionSpace User Interface Rewrite: Advanced Search and Relating Records