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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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Transforming Research Data Practices: Machine-Actionable Data Management Plans

June 27, 2025

As research becomes increasingly data-driven, the challenge of managing data efficiently and transparently is more pressing than ever. At UC Berkeley, a new campus pilot project is exploring the use of machine-actionable data management plans — a next-generation approach to data...Read more about Transforming Research Data Practices: Machine-Actionable Data Management Plans

Visual Studio (VS) Code on Savio

April 22, 2025

Thursday, May 8, 3:40-5pm

Hybrid: in-person in Dwinelle 128 and via Zoom

Registration required...Read more about Visual Studio (VS) Code on Savio

Exploring REDCap: Enabling Secure Data Capture at UC Berkeley

April 21, 2025

REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web application designed to support online and offline data capture for research studies.

Rick Jaffe, who co-leads the REDCap service at Berkeley, describes it as a tool that allows researchers...Read more about Exploring REDCap: Enabling Secure Data Capture at UC Berkeley