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

PAHMA HackTheHearst hackathon winners announced

October 10, 2014

On Sunday, September 21, 2014, teams of computer hackers, user interface designers and domain experts and enthusiasts convened at UC Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA), to present their entries to judges and spectators in the first-ever...Read more about PAHMA HackTheHearst hackathon winners announced

CollectionSpace Tech Team Formed at LYRASIS

October 7, 2014

The CollectionSpace technical team has gained two new members who will support and extend the museum collections management software through LYRASIS, the project’s new organizational home. Richard Millet, formerly of UC Berkeley’s Research IT, has joined LYRASIS as the CollectionSpace Technical...Read more about CollectionSpace Tech Team Formed at LYRASIS

Hackathon white paper now available

October 3, 2014

"#HackFSM: Bootstrapping a Library Hackathon in Eight Short Weeks" is a white paper published on 3 October, describing how this spring’s #HackFSM was organized...Read more about Hackathon white paper now available