Research IT

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Status and Service Updates

Thurs, 7/2/2026: Savio System Status

⚠️ Compute
⚠️  Storage
✅ Login nodes

76.09% of the compute nodes are available (231 nodes are in a down/drain state). OST:20 is at 95% disk usage, OST:15 and OST:17 are at 94%, and OST:18 is at 93%. In002 is also currently down. We are working on these issues and will share updates on our progress.

Wed, 7/1/2026: MyBRC user portal returned to service and available

The MyBRC user portal has been returned to service and is fully available to users again.

Wed, 7/1/2026: Savio System Status

⚠️ Compute
⚠️  Storage
✅ Login nodes

76.19% of the compute nodes are available (230 nodes are in a down/drain state). OST:20 is at 96% disk usage, OST:15,  OST:17 and  OST:18 are all at 94% disk usage, and OST:110 is inactive. We are continuing to work on these issues and will share updates on our progress.

Tues, 6/30/2026: Savio System Status

⚠️ Compute
⚠️  Storage
✅ Login nodes

75.87% of the compute nodes are available (235 nodes are in a down/drain state). OST:20 is at 96% disk usage, OST:17 is at 95%, and OST:15 and OST:18 are at 94%, and OST:108 is inactive. We are continuing to work on these issues and will share updates on our progress.

Mon, 6/26/2026: Partial InfiniBand outage on savio2 and savio2_bigmem, and MyBRC portal unavailable

We are currently experiencing an issue that is affecting compute nodes in the savio2 and savio2_bigmem partitions. This is related to the FDR InfiniBand fabric, which will cause issues accessing the scratch directory on the affected compute nodes and may cause jobs to fail. Additionally, the MyBRC portal is currently unavailable due to an expired SSL certificate. As a security precaution, we have temporarily taken the portal offline while we await a new certificate from the university. We will restore portal access as soon as the updated certificate is received and deployed.

Mon, 6/29/2026: Savio System Status

⚠️ Compute
⚠️  Storage
✅ Login nodes

78.85% of the compute nodes are available (206 nodes are in a down/drain state). OST:20 is at 96% disk usage, OST:17 is at 95%, and OST:15 and OST:18 are at 94%. We are continuing to work on these issues and will share updates on our progress.

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Rick Jaffe Honored with Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award

June 3, 2026

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

Spring 2026 Newsletter

May 15, 2026

Welcome to the Spring 2026 special edition Research IT newsletter. We have been hard at work monitoring the health and upgrade of our systems in order to minimize interruption to the important research happening on our campus. Read more about these efforts below.

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Research IT is Hiring Graduate Student Domain Consultants

April 9, 2026

Research IT is hiring for multiple graduate student Domain Consultant positions. These are flexible, 10% to 25% (4-10 hours/week) remote appointments. We are seeking diverse and curious candidates from across scholarly disciplines who are enthusiastic about supporting campus researchers by...Read more about Research IT is Hiring Graduate Student Domain Consultants