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 Downtime: 8AM Fri, 7/4 - 5PM Mon, 7/7

We are planning a downtime to conduct storage-related work on DDN and VAST, which is critical for the HPC services. The downtime will start at 8AM on Friday, 7/4. We plan to work over the weekend, anticipating a return to service by 5PM on Monday, 7/7. During the downtime, you will have no access to the Savio cluster or be able to run jobs. A Slurm reservation is in place, so please make sure that you complete your jobs within the proper walltime; otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queues until the downtime is over.

No office hours Thursday, June 19

Research IT will not be hosting office hours on Thursday, June 19 as it is a university holiday.

No office hours during finals: 5/12-5/16

Research IT will not be holding our regular office hours during the week of Spring Break, 5/12 - 5/16. Please get in touch with us at research-it@berkeley.edu for any help in the meantime.

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News Articles

UCB Cloud Meetup 040: Ethnic Studies Changemaker Project Augmented Reality

February 24, 2023

Thursday, 2/23
1-2pm PST via Zoom

Description: This month features augmented reality and podcasting in the cloud, with the Ethnic Studies Changemaker project, presented by Dr. Pablo Gonzalez, a lecturer in the Ethnic Studies department at Berkeley along with four

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Associate Director Chris Hoffman’s Move to UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and His Contributions to Research IT

January 28, 2023

As Research IT’s Associate Director Chris Hoffman moves into a new role in UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, we would like to thank him for his incredible efforts and contributions over the years. He began working part-time to manage museum collections for UC Berkeley’s data...Read more about Associate Director Chris Hoffman’s Move to UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and His Contributions to Research IT

Cloud Meetup: Optimizing Qualitative Research in Public Health

January 26, 2023

Thursday, 1/26
1-2pm via Zoom

Presenter: Wan Nurul Naszeerah, Domain Consultant at Research IT & Doctor of Public Health Student at UC Berkeley

Description: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud platform which offers over 200 fully featured services.

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