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

Planned Outage the week of June 8 for Scratch OS Upgrade

We have scheduled a planned outage affecting the Savio cluster during the week of June 8. DDN recommended this upgrade, and we are undertaking it partly in response to the recent outages many of you have experienced. While this upgrade is not a guaranteed remedy, we believe it is an important and necessary step toward enhancing the system's overall reliability and stability. We appreciate your patience and cooperation as we work to improve the Savio environment.

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

August 25, 2021
Details

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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UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup

July 29, 2021
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UC Berkeley research labs have been at the forefront of the design and planning for much of today's cloud computing industry. Meanwhile the University's own teams run cloud based production systems including those that support the teaching of data

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