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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...Read more about Helping Scientists Understand Research Cyber Risks

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

(Savio, Vector, and Cortex) that will replace the aging Scientific Linux 6 operating system with version 7, which offers many new and frequently-requested software...Read more about Scientific Linux 7 coming to BRC clusters

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...Read more about Stretch your FCA further using ht_helper for improved efficiency on Savio

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

and David Greenbaum. The panel was part of the event’s Track 1...Read more about Research IT hosts Workforce Strategy Panel at annual One IT Summit 2017

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

Research...Read more about BRC is recruiting: Research Computing Support internships and Domain Consultant position

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...Read more about Seismologist processes earthquake waveforms recorded by smartphones on multiple platforms

Effective August 1, 2017, Research IT, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and...Read more about Research IT Aligns with CTL and ETS to Improve Faculty Support

This past year, Research IT’s interns have been working alongside staff to improve the experience of Savio cluster users. In Spring 2017,...Read more about Research IT interns develop improvements to Savio functionality in response to user input

Research IT’s innovative approach to supporting digital humanities was on display in multiple venues at the international Digital Humanities 2017 conference, held from August 8-11, 2017 at McGill University in Montreal. Quinn Dombrowski,...Read more about Research IT's digital humanities support highlighted at DH 2017