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
No office hours during finals: 5/12-5/16
Research IT will not be holding our regular office hours during the week of Spring Break, 5/12 - 5/16. Please get in touch with us at research-it@berkeley.edu for any help in the meantime.
No office hours during Spring Break: 3/26-3/27
Research IT will not hold office hours during Spring Break on Wednesday, 3/26 and Thursday, 3/27. Please get in touch with us via e-mail in the meantime and we will be happy to assist you.
Data Center Shut Down and Savio Downtime: Fri, 3/28 (5pm) - Tues, 4/1 (8am)
Our campus data center will temporarily shut down on Sunday, March 30, for essential generator work. In conjunction with this work, the Savio cluster will also be offline, starting Friday, March 28, at 5 p.m. until Tuesday, April 1, at 8 a.m. Pacific. A scheduler reservation is in place to ensure no jobs run after 5:00 p.m. on March 28th. If you plan to submit jobs, please ask for proper wall time to complete them before the downtime. Otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queue until the cluster is back online.
News Articles
Visual Studio (VS) Code on Savio
Thursday, May 8, 3:40-5pm
Hybrid: in-person in Dwinelle 128 and via Zoom
Registration required...Read more about Visual Studio (VS) Code on Savio
Exploring REDCap: Enabling Secure Data Capture at UC Berkeley
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web application designed to support online and offline data capture for research studies.
Rick Jaffe, who co-leads the REDCap service at Berkeley, describes it as a tool that allows researchers...Read more about Exploring REDCap: Enabling Secure Data Capture at UC Berkeley
Debunk with Empathy: A New Book on How We Should Talk About Health
How do you talk to a loved one about vaccines without it spiraling into an argument? What do you say when a parent insists on a remedy passed down for generations, but you’re unsure if it actually works?
These are the kinds of conversations...Read more about Debunk with Empathy: A New Book on How We Should Talk About Health