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

Research IT's Quinn Dombrowski steps up to lead BRC Consulting

July 7, 2017

Research IT’s Quinn Dombrowski is the new service manager for BRC Consulting as of July 1, 2017. Dombrowski brings a wealth of consulting experience and leadership to her new role.

Quinn has ten years experience consulting with faculty in humanities, social sciences, and biological...Read more about Research IT's Quinn Dombrowski steps up to lead BRC Consulting

Research IT Staff Present at UC Berkeley CaVraCon

June 27, 2017

Emerging image technologies took digital humanities to new heights in this year’s statewide CaVraCon [1], the biennial California Visual Resources Association Conference, which is...Read more about Research IT Staff Present at UC Berkeley CaVraCon