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

VIRTUAL -- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 018

July 29, 2020
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 10:00am to 11:30am
Online via Zoom

Holistic Research Support at UC Berkeley: a Library and Research IT collaboration

July 22, 2020

Anna Sackmann co-authored this post with Amy Neeser

Libraries have historically served as a hub for access to technology by providing publicly available computers with access to the Internet and workshops ontechnology topics. Academic libraries Research IT...Read more about Holistic Research Support at UC Berkeley: a Library and Research IT collaboration

Research IT participates in #ShutDownAcadamia

June 10, 2020

On Wednesday, June 10, Research IT is recognizing #ShutDownAcadamia #shutdownSTEM #Strike4BlackLives.

We will not be holding our regular office hours and staff are out of the office to commit the day to education, action,

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