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 Downtime: 8AM Fri, 7/4 - 5PM Mon, 7/7

We are planning a downtime to conduct storage-related work on DDN and VAST, which is critical for the HPC services. The downtime will start at 8AM on Friday, 7/4. We plan to work over the weekend, anticipating a return to service by 5PM on Monday, 7/7. During the downtime, you will have no access to the Savio cluster or be able to run jobs. A Slurm reservation is in place, so please make sure that you complete your jobs within the proper walltime; otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queues until the downtime is over.

No office hours Thursday, June 19

Research IT will not be hosting office hours on Thursday, June 19 as it is a university holiday.

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.

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News Articles

Securing Research Data: Storage, compute environments, and beyond

February 1, 2017

This spring, a cross-departmental project team is forming to provide guidance and recommendations to the campus about existing and much-needed services for securing research data.

Researchers in a wide range of campus disciplines face an increasingly complex set of requirements to...Read more about Securing Research Data: Storage, compute environments, and beyond

Survey launched about “Understanding researcher needs and values about software”

January 31, 2017

Software is as important as data when it comes to building upon existing scholarship. However, while there has been a small amount of research into how researchers find, adopt, and credit software, there is currently a lack of empirical data on how researchers use, share, and value software and...Read more about Survey launched about “Understanding researcher needs and values about software”

A free & fully-loaded JupyterHub server supports campus research computation

January 24, 2017

An initial cohort of Berkeley researchers has already made productive use of an experimental, powerfully-provisioned server loaned to UC Berkeley by the Pacific Research Platform (PRP) project and configured with JupyterHub. This free resource is administered by a partnership between Berkeley...Read more about A free & fully-loaded JupyterHub server supports campus research computation