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

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.

No office hours during Spring Break: 3/26-3/27

Research IT will not hold office hours during Spring Break on Wednesday, 3/26 and Thursday, 3/27. Please get in touch with us via e-mail in the meantime and we will be happy to assist you.

Data Center Shut Down and Savio Downtime: Fri, 3/28 (5pm) - Tues, 4/1 (8am)

Our campus data center will temporarily shut down on Sunday, March 30, for essential generator work. In conjunction with this work, the Savio cluster will also be offline, starting Friday, March 28, at 5 p.m. until Tuesday, April 1, at 8 a.m. Pacific. A scheduler reservation is in place to ensure no jobs run after 5:00 p.m. on March 28th. If you plan to submit jobs, please ask for proper wall time to complete them before the downtime. Otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queue until the cluster is back online.

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News Articles

CollectionSpace Partnership with BNHM Consortium

March 3, 2011

Email sent to IST staff by Michael Mundrane, DCIO, on March 3, 2011

Colleagues,

I would like to take a moment to spotlight a great example of the kind of partnership that IST can provide to our campus community. For several years, a team from Data Services (DS) has been...Read more about CollectionSpace Partnership with BNHM Consortium

CollectionSpace 1.0: A positive addition to the campus application portfolio

January 27, 2011

UC Berkeley iNews, January 27, 2011

Chris Hoffman, Patrick Schmitz, and David Greenbaum From Art to Zoology, UC Berkeley is home to world-class research and teaching museums that are internationally known for the quality and importance of their collections. Collection management systems...Read more about CollectionSpace 1.0: A positive addition to the campus application portfolio

Mellon Foundation Awards Bamboo Technology Project

September 24, 2010

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation approved funding of $1.293M for the Bamboo Technology Project, following on an Planning Project funded by the Foundation that commenced in April 2008. The funded project grew out of planning contributions from scholars, librarians, and technologists at hundreds...Read more about Mellon Foundation Awards Bamboo Technology Project