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: Tentative 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. Please contact us if this causes any disruptions to your work.
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Resources for Generative AI
Wednesday, November 18th from 3:30-5pm
Dwinelle 127 (RTL Commons) and via Zoom
Join us to learn about LLM resources to support researchers, including those on Berkeley’s high-performance computing clusters as well as cloud-based solutions and national research...Read more about Resources for Generative AI
New Incident and Status Dashboard for the Savio HPC Cluster
As part of our efforts to improve Savio system reliability and communications with users, Research IT is excited to announce that we have launched a new incident and status dashboard for the Savio HPC...Read more about New Incident and Status Dashboard for the Savio HPC Cluster
Rick Jaffe Honored with Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award
We are thrilled to announce that Rick Jaffe, Research Data Consultant and CollectionSpace Service Lead within Research IT, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award (COSA). This prestigious honor is among the highest forms of recognition...Read more about Rick Jaffe Honored with Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award




