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

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.

Savio Downtime rescheduled: Thurs 5/18, 8am-5pm

The cluster downtime is rescheduled to 8:00 AM Thursday, May 18th. We plan to upgrade the global scratch parallel file system aimed for the preparation to implement the purge policy on /global/scratch. We estimate the downtime will only last for a few hours before the cluster returns to service by 5PM.

No office hours during finals week, 5/8 - 5/12

We are not offering office hours during finals week, 5/8 - 5/12. Please get in touch with us at research-it-consulting@berkeley.edu in the meantime. We will resume normal hours next week.

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News Articles

Open OnDemand is now available!

May 8, 2021

We are pleased to announce the release and support of Open OnDemand on the Savio supercluster. OnDemand provides a web-based approach for easy access to our HPC infrastructure. With OnDemand, you can upload and download files, create, edit, submit, and monitor jobs and connect

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Introduction to containers on Savio: creating reproducible, scalable, & portable workflows

April 21, 2021

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 8:40am to 10:00am
via Zoom (we will send the Zoom info after you register)

This training will introduce you to the key concepts and tools for using containers, in particular Docker and Singularity containers. Containers make it easy to install software, move...Read more about Introduction to containers on Savio: creating reproducible, scalable, & portable workflows

Meet Heather Amato, Research IT Domain Consultant!

April 18, 2021

This article was co-authored with Tiffany Vo.

We are delighted that Heather Amato joined our Research IT consulting team in April 2020!

Prior to joining us at UC Berkeley, Heather achieved a Masters in Public Health at Emory University

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