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

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.

No office hours during Spring Break: 3/26-3/27

Research IT will not hold office hours during Spring Break on Wednesday, 3/26 and Thursday, 3/27. Please get in touch with us via e-mail in the meantime and we will be happy to assist you.

Data Center Shut Down and Savio Downtime: Fri, 3/28 (5pm) - Tues, 4/1 (8am)

Our campus data center will temporarily shut down on Sunday, March 30, for essential generator work. In conjunction with this work, the Savio cluster will also be offline, starting Friday, March 28, at 5 p.m. until Tuesday, April 1, at 8 a.m. Pacific. A scheduler reservation is in place to ensure no jobs run after 5:00 p.m. on March 28th. If you plan to submit jobs, please ask for proper wall time to complete them before the downtime. Otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queue until the cluster is back online.

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News Articles

Associate Director Chris Hoffman’s Move to UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and His Contributions to Research IT

January 28, 2023

As Research IT’s Associate Director Chris Hoffman moves into a new role in UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, we would like to thank him for his incredible efforts and contributions over the years. He began working part-time to manage museum collections for UC Berkeley’s data...Read more about Associate Director Chris Hoffman’s Move to UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and His Contributions to Research IT

Cloud Meetup: Optimizing Qualitative Research in Public Health

January 26, 2023

Thursday, 1/26
1-2pm via Zoom

Presenter: Wan Nurul Naszeerah, Domain Consultant at Research IT & Doctor of Public Health Student at UC Berkeley

Description: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud platform which offers over 200 fully featured services.

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Introduction to Containers: Creating Reproducible, Scalable & Portable Workflows

January 25, 2023

Thursday, February 16
12-1pm via Zoom

Registration required

This training will introduce you to the key concepts and tools for using...Read more about Introduction to Containers: Creating Reproducible, Scalable & Portable Workflows