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

Introduction to high performance computing with Savio training registration

September 30, 2021

Thursday, October 14, 2021
Drop-in help: 3:10-3:40
Training: 3:40-5:00pm via Zoom (we will send the Zoom info after you register)

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VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 028: Secure Research Data + Compute

September 29, 2021

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No researcher wants to wake up to a headline screaming that their research has leaked human subject data onto the Darkweb. But it's not always clear to people how to protect their key research data, and there is much pressing work to do beyond security. Ever...Read more about VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 028: Secure Research Data + Compute

VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 027: Pacific Research Platform

August 25, 2021
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This month's Cloud Meetup will focus on the Pacific Research Platform. Launched in 2015 with a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Research Platform sought to build a high-speed broadband freeway for research in a variety of data-intensive

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