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

Community and RDM at CarpentryCon 2018

August 3, 2018

by Scott Peterson and Josh Quan

Between both organizations, Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry have more than two decades of experience teaching foundational computing and data science skills to researchers through their volunteer-led workshops. In 2018, these organizations...Read more about Community and RDM at CarpentryCon 2018

Guides to making research software reproducible, citable, and well-documented

July 23, 2018

Preserving and maintaining research software is a challenge to researchers and academic libraries. In my role as a CLIR postdoctoral fellow in software curation, I recently discussed the technical challenges of preserving and maintaining research software in a UC Berkeley

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Annual BRC User Survey underway

June 1, 2018

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) is conducting its third annual survey of our users, to solicit feedback from our community, and to gather the data we need to make a

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