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Status and Service Updates

Scratch file system is back! Tues, 9/17

Our admin team has worked tirelessly to restore the Savio cluster's scratch system. The cluster functionality is now back to normal, and we are thankful for your patience and support throughout the process. We also appreciate users' efforts to clean up and move their files out of scratch. As a part of best practices, we urge users to keep backing up their files from scratch to permanent storage discs and avoid storing massive numbers of tiny files in scratch for long periods.

Global scratch issues: Mon, 9/16

Due to extensive usage, the Savio storage system /global/scratch has run out of capacity. As a result, you might have seen the "out-of-space" errors and experienced other instabilities. We are aware of these issues, and our team is working on resolving them; however, during this phase, you might see that the terminal command/s(for example, ls) executions are slow and sluggish. We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this time. Please reach out to us at brc-hpc-help@berkeley.edu if you have any further questions.

Savio HPC Services Resumed: Mon, 8/12

We are excited to report that Savio HPC services have resumed. As planned, the Berkeley IT team repaired the automated transfer switch in the data center over the weekend. The data center's power is restored, and the Savio supercluster is back online. Jobs have started running, and HPC services, including Open OnDemand and Globus, are also back in service.

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News Articles

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 035: *IN-PERSON/HYBRID* SkyDeck Summer Meetup

July 11, 2022
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The UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup is welcoming people to our first in-person meetup since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. (We will try our hand at making the event hybrid to accommodate both remote and local participation-- an experiment!) We are intentionally

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UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 033: Yoga and Machine Learning

April 27, 2022

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This month the Cloud Meetup is a part of our vendor showcase series, featuring Microsoft Azure, and an academic research presentation they identified. “Stay Fit, Stay Safe” is a deep learning solution employing AI to analyze and structure video content. It

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Towards a Litter-Free Metaverse!

April 10, 2022

Want to know more about the latest updates on the Metaverse? Here is a little review and comment of it by Chris Hoffman!

"I recently attended an excellent conference, GatherVerse 2022. The focus of the GatherVerse community is on designing and nurturing a human-first metaverse, an...Read more about Towards a Litter-Free Metaverse!