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

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

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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UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 032: LBL Advanced Light Source + Google Cloud Platform

April 10, 2022

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This month the Cloud Meetup will host a presentation by Dr. Scott Classen (Scott is a Biophysicist Research Scientist in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab) who supports the...Read more about UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 032: LBL Advanced Light Source + Google Cloud Platform