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

MyBRC User Portal

November 29, 2021

Research IT is excited to highlight MyBRC, our new user portal for access management, which was released this August and is accessible at https://mybrc.brc.berkeley.edu. This new user-friendly platform is for faculty,...Read more about MyBRC User Portal

Python & Jupyter Notebooks on Savio Training

November 4, 2021

Python & Jupyter Notebooks on Savio training
Monday, November 15, 2021
Training: 3:40 - 5:00 pm via Zoom (we will send the Zoom info after you register)

Research IT is offering an intermediate training session on using Python and...Read more about Python & Jupyter Notebooks on Savio Training

VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 029: AWS and the RiseLab

October 24, 2021

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This month's meetup is the first in a series of vendor showcase meetups in which the UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup asks for the vendor to provide research oriented applications of their cloud stacks. In this case AWS has selected RISELab, and we will hear from Joey Gonzalez...Read more about VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 029: AWS and the RiseLab