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

Holistic Research Support at UC Berkeley: a Library and Research IT collaboration

July 22, 2020

Anna Sackmann co-authored this post with Amy Neeser

Libraries have historically served as a hub for access to technology by providing publicly available computers with access to the Internet and workshops ontechnology topics. Academic libraries Research IT...Read more about Holistic Research Support at UC Berkeley: a Library and Research IT collaboration

Research IT participates in #ShutDownAcadamia

June 10, 2020

On Wednesday, June 10, Research IT is recognizing #ShutDownAcadamia #shutdownSTEM #Strike4BlackLives.

We will not be holding our regular office hours and staff are out of the office to commit the day to education, action,

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Researching in Troubled Times: A Community Exchange About Impacts of COVID-19

April 30, 2020
Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 4:30am to 5:30am

The current pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of normal life across the globe. Researchers at Berkeley also face particular

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