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January 12, 2018

Research IT at Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment (MSDSE) Summit

January 10, 2018

2017 Binder workshop at UC Davis

UC Berkeley’s Research IT group was invited to participate in the 2017 Binder workshop hosted at UC Davis in October of last year.

December 21, 2017

Success stories from BRC’s undergraduate ops internship program

November 21, 2017

Summit Explores Reach, Inclusion

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. 

November 20, 2017

BRC interns present at SLURM User Group

November 17, 2017

Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2017

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:

November 6, 2017

Cloud Working Group November 2017 Update

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.

October 5, 2017

Botanist finds a bioinformatic home in Savio

October 4, 2017

HearstCAVE project presents at ATXpo

October 3, 2017

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

October 2, 2017

Welcoming Amy Neeser, RDM Program Manager

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.

September 25, 2017

Helping Scientists Understand Research Cyber Risks

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.”

September 14, 2017

Stretch your FCA further using ht_helper for improved efficiency on Savio

The ht_helper utility is available to assist researchers in using Savio, the shared campus high performance computing (HPC) cluster, more efficiently. The utility can make a dramatic difference in maximizing the quantity of computation a researcher can perform using the Berkeley Research Computing Program’s free Faculty Computing Allowance.

Scientific Linux 7 coming to BRC clusters

Berkeley Research Computing staff are preparing for a major upgrade to the high performance computing clusters

September 13, 2017

Research IT hosts Workforce Strategy Panel at annual One IT Summit 2017

Research IT hosted a Workforce Strategy Panel at this year’s One IT Summit, facilitated by Aaron Culich

August 28, 2017

Research IT presence at annual UCCSC 2017 gathering
This year’s University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) included a new track -- Research IT -- and was hosted at the beautiful UC San Diego (UCSD) campus August 7–9, 2017. The annual conference gathered together over 500 people from all 10 UC campuses, 3 Medical Center campuses, and the Office of the President.

August 25, 2017

BRC is recruiting: Research Computing Support internships and Domain Consultant position

It’s the start of Fall semester, and the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Program is recruiting for undergraduate and graduate student positions!

Research Computing Support (undergraduate internships)

August 17, 2017

Seismologist processes earthquake waveforms recorded by smartphones on multiple platforms

Growing up in Anyang, in a central region of China greatly impacted by earthquakes, Qingkai Kong was inspired to do research in seismology precisely because earthquakes are serious natural hazards that affect communities worldwide.

August 16, 2017

Research IT Aligns with CTL and ETS to Improve Faculty Support

Effective August 1, 2017, Research IT, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and Educational Technology Services (ETS) have been alig

August 15, 2017

Research IT interns develop improvements to Savio functionality in response to user input

This past year, Research IT’s interns have been working alongside staff to improve the experience of Savio cluster users.