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

UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup

July 29, 2021
What we're about

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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Jupyter notebook streamlines machine translation for researchers

June 29, 2021

The increasing prominence of interdisciplinary studies, coupled with the mass digitization and dissemination of primary sources and scholarly literature alike, has made it possible for scholars to pursue boundary-defying research agendas in ways that were previously impossible

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Introduction to Amazon Web Services

June 16, 2021

Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
10:00-11:30am via Zoom (we will send the Zoom info after you register)

Research IT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab are partnering to provide this 90 minute general...Read more about Introduction to Amazon Web Services