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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

Research IT Launches New Research Data Management Initiative

August 18, 2014

The proper stewardship of research data has become critically important in our society, both for accountability (e.g., scientific reproducibility) as well as for new research (e.g., through the reuse of data in data science and “big data”). Many research institutions have decided to make...Read more about Research IT Launches New Research Data Management Initiative

Berkeley Prosopography Services receives NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant

July 22, 2014

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities announced seven recipients of Digital Implementation Grants yesterday, including...Read more about Berkeley Prosopography Services receives NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant

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