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

Savio HPC Open OnDemand Service Fixed: Tues, 10/29

We replaced some faulty hardware in the data center that was causing problems using Open OnDemand so it should now be functioning normally. Please let us know if you see further problems.

No office hours during Thanksgiving Break: Wed, 11/27 - Thurs, 11/28

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not be holding office hours on Wed, 11/27 or Thurs, 11/28. Thursday and Friday are university holidays so we will be limited in our responses until we resume service on Monday, 12/2. Please contact us by e-mail in the meantime.

Savio HPC Open OnDemand Service Issues: Tues, 10/22

Savio's Open OnDemand service is experiencing errors and slow responsiveness because of network issues in the campus data center. We are working on the issue.

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News Articles

Research IT contributes to Force11 Catalog Working Group

May 26, 2015

On May 15th, Camille Villa of Research IT met with the Force11 Catalog Working Group on behalf of the DiRT Directory. Force11 is a community of scholars,...Read more about Research IT contributes to Force11 Catalog Working Group

UC System-wide summit of CIO's and VCR's

May 21, 2015

Members of UC Berkeley’s Research IT group joined CIO Larry Conrad, University Librarian Tom Leonard, and staff from the Office of the VCR at a system-wide summit held on the UCLA Campus this past March. The summit was titled “Next Generation Research & the University of California:...Read more about UC System-wide summit of CIO's and VCR's

BRC: Supporting Data Intensive Computing

May 18, 2015

Like The Blob in a 1950s B-movie, data grows ever larger with time. That’s what UC Berkeley’s researchers are finding as they work with data generated by new generations of instruments and high-resolution sensors, as well as increasingly monstrous datasets. Brain scans from high resolution CCD...Read more about BRC: Supporting Data Intensive Computing