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 Scratch File System is Back Online: Tues, 1/25

The global scratch file system is back to service. Jobs have started running on Savio. Thank you very much for your understanding and patience while we were restoring the service.

Working on Scratch Instability: Tues, 01/25

The global scratch file system on Savio has not been stable since about noon today. Access to certain folders/files may be sporadic or hanging, and some file operations might throw out I/O errors. We are working on this issue and will keep you updated as we resolve it.

No office hours on 1/5 or 1/6

Research IT is participating in a "soft" curtailment the week of Monday, Jan. 3 through Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. We will not be holding office hours during this week.

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News Articles

VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 028: Secure Research Data + Compute

September 29, 2021

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No researcher wants to wake up to a headline screaming that their research has leaked human subject data onto the Darkweb. But it's not always clear to people how to protect their key research data, and there is much pressing work to do beyond security. Ever...Read more about VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 028: Secure Research Data + Compute

VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 027: Pacific Research Platform

August 25, 2021
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This month's Cloud Meetup will focus on the Pacific Research Platform. Launched in 2015 with a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Research Platform sought to build a high-speed broadband freeway for research in a variety of data-intensive

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Introducing the New Research IT Website

August 16, 2021

Research IT is very excited to announce the launch of the new Research IT website. The site is now hosted on Open Berkeley to match other campus websites and comes with enhanced security and accessibility features as well as Berkeley branding.

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