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

Managing Research Data Using REDCap

September 16, 2022
Date/Time: October 25, 3-4pm
Instructors: Wan Nurul Naszeerah, Noah Baker
Description:
Need a platform for secure data collection? REDCap — short for Research Electronic Data Capture — is a secure web...Read more about Managing Research Data Using REDCap

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 036: High Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud costs

August 22, 2022

Details

This month the Cloud Meetup will host a presentation and discussion by Gary Jung (Gary Jung is the lead for the Scientific Computing Group at the...Read more about UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 036: High Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud costs

Introducing the New Research Data Management (RDM) Program Website

July 25, 2022

As Service Lead of the Research Data Management (RDM) Program, I am very excited to announce the launch of the new RDM Program website! Since its beginning in 2015, the RDM Program supports and advocates for campus researchers and their research data need...Read more about Introducing the New Research Data Management (RDM) Program Website