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

Wed, 11/26 - Thurs, 11/27: No office hours during Thanksgiving Break

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not be holding office hours on Wed, 11/26 or Thurs, 11/27. Thursday and Friday are university holidays so we will be limited in our responses until we resume service on Monday, 12/1. Please contact us by e-mail in the meantime.

Mon, 10/27: Scratch File System Back Online

We have restored the scratch file system, and it is online now. However, this issue might occur again, so we will continue to work with our vendor, DDN, and the datacenter team to find a permanent solution. We appreciate your patience.

Mon, 10/27: Savio Scratch File System Down

The scratch file system is not accessible due to a power issue affecting one of the racks. The problem causes a significant loss of power to scratch file system controllers, and this has been happening intermittently over the last few weeks. User jobs running in these circumstances might have failed, or scratch I/O might have paused during the time scratch is inaccessible. After investigating with the help of our vendor, DDN, hardware issues have been ruled out. We are working closely with the data center team (DC) to investigate the root cause of the issue and implement measures to prevent it from happening repeatedly. We will provide an update once the investigation is complete.

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News Articles

Berkeley Prosopography Services receives NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant

July 17, 2014

At the Digital Humanities 2014 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, Quinn Dombrowski, Research IT’s Digital Humanities Coordinator presented a short paper on ...Read more about Berkeley Prosopography Services receives NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant

Berkeley Prosopography Services seminar through UCB’s Social Science Matrix

July 15, 2014

Laurie Pearce and Patrick Schmitz of the Berkeley Prosopography Services project will team up to lead a Fall 2014 seminar through the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix. The seminar will bring together researchers from multiple...Read more about Berkeley Prosopography Services seminar through UCB’s Social Science Matrix

Research IT at OneIT Summit: Posters and BoF session

July 11, 2014

On June 25, 2014 the Research IT team joined more than 400 colleagues to participate in a "forum for UC Berkeley IT staff and teams to network, share their work, highlight new technology and provide status on key initiatives." The...Read more about Research IT at OneIT Summit: Posters and BoF session