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

Working with Sensitive and Protected Data Workshop Summary

March 10, 2020

The "Working with sensitive and Protected Data Workshop" hosted by Research IT took place on December 5, 2019, at the Academic Innovation Studio. With speakers and researchers from Research Data Management, Berkeley Research Computing, Information Security

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Data Peer Consulting Services

February 10, 2020

Students in our data consulting network help make data science accessible across the broader campus community. Launched in Fall 2017, these services are provided as a collaboration between the Center for Connected

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Patrick Schmitz to retire: Research IT Associate Director and BRC Program Manager

June 12, 2019

Research IT’s Associate Director and BRC Program Manager Patrick Schmitz will retire from his role at UC Berkeley after twelve years of visionary and foundational contribution to supporting computationally- and data-intensive research on the campus he first joined as an

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