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 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.

Savio is back online: Thurs, 3/13

We have restored the Savio cluster and it is back online. However, your jobs might have failed due to an abrupt power down. Please check your jobs and resubmit or restart if you have checkpoint files. Once again thank you for your patience and understanding.

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News Articles

Announcing Steve Masover's pending retirement

May 21, 2019

It is with deeply mixed emotions that we are sharing the news that Steve Masover will retire from UC Berkeley at the end of June. Steve has been such an important part of the Research IT team, and many others as well in his tenure at Berkeley, and we’ll miss him.

Steve

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Announcing Amy Neeser's new role with Research IT

May 15, 2019

Research IT is pleased to announce that Amy Neeser will step into a new role as the group’s Consulting and Outreach Lead. Amy will be coordinating our consulting efforts across the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) and Research Data Management (RDM) programs, and will also

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Announcing support for P2/P3 sensitive data in BRC

May 13, 2019

Researchers working with moderately sensitive data can now perform their analyses using their Faculty Computing Allowance (FCA) or their Condo computing resources in UC Berkeley's

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