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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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Debunk with Empathy: A New Book on How We Should Talk About Health

February 12, 2025

How do you talk to a loved one about vaccines without it spiraling into an argument? What do you say when a parent insists on a remedy passed down for generations, but you’re unsure if it actually works?

These are the kinds of conversations...Read more about Debunk with Empathy: A New Book on How We Should Talk About Health

February Spring 2025 Newsletter

February 6, 2025

Welcome to this special Spring 2025 issue of UC Berkeley's Research IT newsletter. Coinciding with Valentine’s Day, next week is Love Data Week

which is...Read more about February Spring 2025 Newsletter

Berkeley Research IT Team Develops Innovative AI Solution for Researchers

January 30, 2025

Berkeley’s Research IT team has introduced a new AI-powered chatbot designed to assist researchers in navigating the complex Savio supercomputer system, enhancing usability and accessibility across UC Berkeley’s research landscape. This collaborative development...Read more about Berkeley Research IT Team Develops Innovative AI Solution for Researchers