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

Mellon Foundation Awards Bamboo Technology Project

September 24, 2010

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation approved funding of $1.293M for the Bamboo Technology Project, following on an Planning Project funded by the Foundation that commenced in April 2008. The funded project grew out of planning contributions from scholars, librarians, and technologists at hundreds...Read more about Mellon Foundation Awards Bamboo Technology Project

CollectionSpace webinars announced

October 20, 2009

UC Berkeley iNews, October 20, 2009 Chris Hoffman The CollectionSpace project is hosting three webinars to introduce people to CollectionSpace, the open-source, web-based software application for the description, management, and dissemination of museum collections information. Webinar...Read more about CollectionSpace webinars announced

Collection management systems for campus museums: CollectionSpace 0.1 released

August 4, 2009

UC Berkeley iNews, August 4, 2009

Chris Hoffman Whether they collect art or insects, museums across campus rely on collection management systems to provide the mission-critical platform for managing their collected objects and facilitating collections-based research. An earlier iNews...Read more about Collection management systems for campus museums: CollectionSpace 0.1 released