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

VIRTUAL -- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 018

July 29, 2020
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 10:00am to 11:30am
Online via Zoom

Holistic Research Support at UC Berkeley: a Library and Research IT collaboration

July 22, 2020

Anna Sackmann co-authored this post with Amy Neeser

Libraries have historically served as a hub for access to technology by providing publicly available computers with access to the Internet and workshops ontechnology topics. Academic libraries Research IT...Read more about Holistic Research Support at UC Berkeley: a Library and Research IT collaboration

Research IT participates in #ShutDownAcadamia

June 10, 2020

On Wednesday, June 10, Research IT is recognizing #ShutDownAcadamia #shutdownSTEM #Strike4BlackLives.

We will not be holding our regular office hours and staff are out of the office to commit the day to education, action,

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