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

Savio Downtime: 8AM Fri, 7/4 - 5PM Mon, 7/7

We are planning a downtime to conduct storage-related work on DDN and VAST, which is critical for the HPC services. The downtime will start at 8AM on Friday, 7/4. We plan to work over the weekend, anticipating a return to service by 5PM on Monday, 7/7. During the downtime, you will have no access to the Savio cluster or be able to run jobs. A Slurm reservation is in place, so please make sure that you complete your jobs within the proper walltime; otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queues until the downtime is over.

No office hours Thursday, June 19

Research IT will not be hosting office hours on Thursday, June 19 as it is a university holiday.

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.

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News Articles

Announcing Steve Masover's pending retirement

May 21, 2019

It is with deeply mixed emotions that we are sharing the news that Steve Masover will retire from UC Berkeley at the end of June. Steve has been such an important part of the Research IT team, and many others as well in his tenure at Berkeley, and we’ll miss him.

Steve

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Announcing Amy Neeser's new role with Research IT

May 15, 2019

Research IT is pleased to announce that Amy Neeser will step into a new role as the group’s Consulting and Outreach Lead. Amy will be coordinating our consulting efforts across the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) and Research Data Management (RDM) programs, and will also

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Announcing support for P2/P3 sensitive data in BRC

May 13, 2019

Researchers working with moderately sensitive data can now perform their analyses using their Faculty Computing Allowance (FCA) or their Condo computing resources in UC Berkeley's

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