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

Announcing Steve Masover's pending retirement

May 21, 2019

It is with deeply mixed emotions that we are sharing the news that Steve Masover will retire from UC Berkeley at the end of June. Steve has been such an important part of the Research IT team, and many others as well in his tenure at Berkeley, and we’ll miss him.

Steve

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Announcing Amy Neeser's new role with Research IT

May 15, 2019

Research IT is pleased to announce that Amy Neeser will step into a new role as the group’s Consulting and Outreach Lead. Amy will be coordinating our consulting efforts across the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) and Research Data Management (RDM) programs, and will also

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Announcing support for P2/P3 sensitive data in BRC

May 13, 2019

Researchers working with moderately sensitive data can now perform their analyses using their Faculty Computing Allowance (FCA) or their Condo computing resources in UC Berkeley's

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