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

Job submission issues resolved: Thurs, 09/21

Job submission problems have been resolved for both interactive and batch jobs.

Issues with interactive job submissions: Wed, 09/20/23

There are problems on compute nodes that prevent job submissions since yesterday (09/19/23). We are working to resolve it.

Issues with Scratch: Thurs, 8/31/23

We are experiencing some difficulties with the scratch file system because a few users have a very large number of files there. We're in the process of addressing this, but in the meantime, you may see "no space on the device" errors when using scratch.

Known remote I/O issue: Mon, June 5

We are aware of the current remote I/O issue on login node 2/3 and are working to resolve it this evening by rebooting the login nodes.

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News Articles

Introducing the New Research IT Website

August 16, 2021

Research IT is very excited to announce the launch of the new Research IT website. The site is now hosted on Open Berkeley to match other campus websites and comes with enhanced security and accessibility features as well as Berkeley branding.

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UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup

July 29, 2021
What we're about

UC Berkeley research labs have been at the forefront of the design and planning for much of today's cloud computing industry. Meanwhile the University's own teams run cloud based production systems including those that support the teaching of data

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Jupyter notebook streamlines machine translation for researchers

June 29, 2021

The increasing prominence of interdisciplinary studies, coupled with the mass digitization and dissemination of primary sources and scholarly literature alike, has made it possible for scholars to pursue boundary-defying research agendas in ways that were previously impossible

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