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Status and Service Updates

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.

Mon, 10/6 & Wed, 10/8: Savio IDM will undergo brief maintenance

The Identity Management Team has planned maintenance this week on Monday, 6th October, and Wednesday, 8th October, from 4 pm to 7 pm. A brief interruption to identity services, particularly those related to Shibboleth, Grouper, identity linking, password reset, group creation, and RADIUS, is expected. Savio/Vector users may experience delays when logging in to the terminal and the OOD web portal during the maintenance window. We will keep you updated on the status if anything changes.

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News Articles

BRC HPC Condo Cluster Off to a Roaring Start

August 25, 2014

Research IT's new BRC HPC Condo Cluster service offering has gotten off to a roaring start. The new service, officially launched on May 22 at a...Read more about BRC HPC Condo Cluster Off to a Roaring Start

UC-wide repository for managing digital resources goes live

August 20, 2014

Staff who create, manage, and provide access to digital resources at the University of California Libraries can now store these resources, together with their descriptive metadata, in a new UC-wide digital asset management system (DAMS).

As described in...Read more about UC-wide repository for managing digital resources goes live

Research Data Management poster presented at June IT Summit

August 18, 2014

At the June 2014 IT Summit, Research IT shared a set of posters describing the group's activities. The Research Data Management poster is posted on the One IT site along with...Read more about Research Data Management poster presented at June IT Summit