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 rescheduled: 4/4 - 4/5

The Savio cluster downtime is rescheduled to start at 8:00 AM Tuesday, April 4th for system upgrade. The upgrade work will include Slurm, master node, MyBRC portal and the storage. The downtime is estimated to last for two days. We plan to bring the cluster back to service by 5PM Wednesday the 5th once the work is complete.

Savio login issues: Mon, 3/13

Savio users may still experience login failures, which is related to the maintenance work being performed last week. The IDM team who is providing the authentication service is conducting an investigation. We will keep you posted on any progress being made. Thank you for your patience.

Savio downtime postponed: Thurs, 3/9

The scheduled downtime is temporarily postponed. We will make an announcement once a future downtime is confirmed.

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News Articles

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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UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup

July 29, 2021
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UC Berkeley research labs have been at the forefront of the design and planning for much of today's cloud computing industry. Meanwhile the University's own teams run cloud based production systems including those that support the teaching of data

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Jupyter notebook streamlines machine translation for researchers

June 29, 2021

The increasing prominence of interdisciplinary studies, coupled with the mass digitization and dissemination of primary sources and scholarly literature alike, has made it possible for scholars to pursue boundary-defying research agendas in ways that were previously impossible

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