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Status and Service Updates

Mon, 10/26/2026: Tentative Savio Maintenance

We need to schedule a planned outage for one day affecting the Savio cluster in order to fix an issue in lustre that has been causing sporadic inactive OSTs on the login nodes and compute nodes as well as some general node maintenance and repairs. We have a slurm node reservation in place for on Monday, October 26. Please contact us if this causes any disruptions to your work.

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Savio Computing Cluster Current Operational Status, Risk Mitigation, and Best Practices

February 24, 2026

We would like to provide an update on the Savio supercomputing cluster global scratch parallel file system service restoration and long-term stability. On Friday, January 23, 2026 the scratch file system on Savio became completely unavailable on the Savio cluster’s...Read more about Savio Computing Cluster Current Operational Status, Risk Mitigation, and Best Practices

Empowering Secure Research at Berkeley: How SRDC is Enabling Data-Driven Discovery

December 4, 2025

As research data becomes increasingly complex and regulated, UC Berkeley’s Secure Research Data and Computing (SRDC) Platform and service have become an essential part of the campus research ecosystem. Made possible by funding from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research,...Read more about Empowering Secure Research at Berkeley: How SRDC is Enabling Data-Driven Discovery

November Newsletter

November 4, 2025

Welcome to the Fall 2025 issue of UC Berkeley’s Research IT Newsletter!
This special edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Research Data Management (RDM) Program — a decade of collaboration and innovation in supporting Berkeley’s research community.

The RDM...Read more about November Newsletter