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

UCB Research IT participates in 2016 Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment (MSDSE) Summit

December 26, 2016

UC Berkeley’s Research IT group participated in the 2016 Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment (MSDSE) Summit, held in New York from October 23-26.

Hosted by NYU, this year’s summit was focused around “building community around data science for research.” The summit brought together...Read more about UCB Research IT participates in 2016 Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment (MSDSE) Summit

Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2016

December 20, 2016

Much of the UC Berkeley campus will be closed, or operating on modified schedules, during the Holiday Energy Curtailment period from December 26, 2016 to January 2, 2017.

Research IT services and support will be operating during this period as follows:

BRC HPC - The Savio cluster...Read more about Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2016

Cyberinfrastructure Engineer impact: can your team benefit too?

December 19, 2016

Maurice Manning has recently joined Berkeley's Research IT team as a cyberinfrastructure engineer (CIE), supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, and has already begun to make an impact supporting multiple research teams on campus.

Initial Engagements

Maurice has...Read more about Cyberinfrastructure Engineer impact: can your team benefit too?