Research IT

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Status and Service Updates

Wed, 11/26 - Thurs, 11/27: No office hours during Thanksgiving Break

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not be holding office hours on Wed, 11/26 or Thurs, 11/27. Thursday and Friday are university holidays so we will be limited in our responses until we resume service on Monday, 12/1. Please contact us by e-mail in the meantime.

Mon, 10/27: Scratch File System Back Online

We have restored the scratch file system, and it is online now. However, this issue might occur again, so we will continue to work with our vendor, DDN, and the datacenter team to find a permanent solution. We appreciate your patience.

Mon, 10/27: Savio Scratch File System Down

The scratch file system is not accessible due to a power issue affecting one of the racks. The problem causes a significant loss of power to scratch file system controllers, and this has been happening intermittently over the last few weeks. User jobs running in these circumstances might have failed, or scratch I/O might have paused during the time scratch is inaccessible. After investigating with the help of our vendor, DDN, hardware issues have been ruled out. We are working closely with the data center team (DC) to investigate the root cause of the issue and implement measures to prevent it from happening repeatedly. We will provide an update once the investigation is complete.

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News Articles

CollectionSpace 2.5 released

August 14, 2012

The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace version 2.5. This release is the culmination of the first six-months of 2012 and represents improved functionality for search, locations and movements, date handling, controlled vocabularies, and hierarchical...Read more about CollectionSpace 2.5 released

CollectionSpace Partnership with BNHM Consortium

March 3, 2011

Email sent to IST staff by Michael Mundrane, DCIO, on March 3, 2011

Colleagues,

I would like to take a moment to spotlight a great example of the kind of partnership that IST can provide to our campus community. For several years, a team from Data Services (DS) has been...Read more about CollectionSpace Partnership with BNHM Consortium

CollectionSpace 1.0: A positive addition to the campus application portfolio

January 27, 2011

UC Berkeley iNews, January 27, 2011

Chris Hoffman, Patrick Schmitz, and David Greenbaum From Art to Zoology, UC Berkeley is home to world-class research and teaching museums that are internationally known for the quality and importance of their collections. Collection management systems...Read more about CollectionSpace 1.0: A positive addition to the campus application portfolio