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

Savio Downtime: 8AM Fri, 7/4 - 5PM Mon, 7/7

We are planning a downtime to conduct storage-related work on DDN and VAST, which is critical for the HPC services. The downtime will start at 8AM on Friday, 7/4. We plan to work over the weekend, anticipating a return to service by 5PM on Monday, 7/7. During the downtime, you will have no access to the Savio cluster or be able to run jobs. A Slurm reservation is in place, so please make sure that you complete your jobs within the proper walltime; otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queues until the downtime is over.

No office hours Thursday, June 19

Research IT will not be hosting office hours on Thursday, June 19 as it is a university holiday.

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.

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News Articles

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 035: *IN-PERSON/HYBRID* SkyDeck Summer Meetup

July 11, 2022
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The UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup is welcoming people to our first in-person meetup since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. (We will try our hand at making the event hybrid to accommodate both remote and local participation-- an experiment!) We are intentionally

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UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 033: Yoga and Machine Learning

April 27, 2022

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This month the Cloud Meetup is a part of our vendor showcase series, featuring Microsoft Azure, and an academic research presentation they identified. “Stay Fit, Stay Safe” is a deep learning solution employing AI to analyze and structure video content. It

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Towards a Litter-Free Metaverse!

April 10, 2022

Want to know more about the latest updates on the Metaverse? Here is a little review and comment of it by Chris Hoffman!

"I recently attended an excellent conference, GatherVerse 2022. The focus of the GatherVerse community is on designing and nurturing a human-first metaverse, an...Read more about Towards a Litter-Free Metaverse!