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 scheduled downtime: Tues, 1/31

We have scheduled a downtime starting at 8AM Tuesday, January 24 to add new DDN shelves to the /global/scratch for future buy-in expansions. The downtime is estimated to last less than one day. A scheduler reservation is in place to ensure there are no jobs running during this time so if you submit jobs, please request proper walltime for those jobs to complete before the downtime.

Office Hours to resume on Wed, 1/18

Our weekly office hours are closed during the winter break and will resume on Wednesday, 1/18. We will keep our regular hours on Wednesday afternoons from 1:30-3pm and Thursday mornings from 9:30-11am. We are available via email to help in the meantime.

Limited holiday availability: 12/23 - 1/2

Research IT will be participating in the campus-wide curtailment program from Friday, 12/23 - Mon, 1/2. Assume only emergency support will be available for our systems and services as most of our staff are out of the office. Office hours will resume the week of 1/17.

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News Articles

VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 028: Secure Research Data + Compute

September 29, 2021

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No researcher wants to wake up to a headline screaming that their research has leaked human subject data onto the Darkweb. But it's not always clear to people how to protect their key research data, and there is much pressing work to do beyond security. Ever...Read more about VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 028: Secure Research Data + Compute

VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 027: Pacific Research Platform

August 25, 2021
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This month's Cloud Meetup will focus on the Pacific Research Platform. Launched in 2015 with a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Research Platform sought to build a high-speed broadband freeway for research in a variety of data-intensive

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Introducing the New Research IT Website

August 16, 2021

Research IT is very excited to announce the launch of the new Research IT website. The site is now hosted on Open Berkeley to match other campus websites and comes with enhanced security and accessibility features as well as Berkeley branding.

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