Research IT

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Status and Service Updates

Savio HPC Cluster is Back to Service: Fri, 2/21

We have completed the scheduled DDN work, including replacing cables and updating firmware. Savio services have been returned, and your jobs have started running. Remember that Global Scratch is almost running at its maximum capacity. Please remove unnecessary files and directories to help us keep the file system running optimally so that you can conduct productive research.

Savio Downtime: Thurs, 2/20-Fri, 2/21, 2025

DDN engineers will visit the data center to perform cabling work on the Savio parallel file system, which is expected to resolve ongoing filesystem issues. We will shut down the file system at 8:00 AM on Thursday, February 20, and return the service by 5:00 PM on Friday, February 21. A Slurm reservation is in place to prevent jobs from running during the downtime. If you plan to submit jobs, please request proper walltime for them to be completed before 8 AM on February 20. Otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queue until the cluster is back online.

Globus Returned to Service: Wed, 1/15

Globus is back in production and available to users on Savio.

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News Articles

Getting the sources you need for your text mining project

November 16, 2018

You have a great research question that you want to answer with text data mining (TDM) methods, and you've got some Python under your belt or you've decided to see what you can learn from a browser-based tool like

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Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2018

November 7, 2018

Much of the UC Berkeley campus will be closed, or operating on modified schedules, during the Holiday Energy Curtailment period from December 24, 2018 through January 1, 2019.

Research IT services and support will be operating during this period as follows:

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Modeling heat dispersion in pebble-bed reactors: April Novak

October 31, 2018

April Novak, a doctoral candidate in UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, works with Asst. Professor Rachel Slaybaugh to develop modeling software that helps validate the safety and feasibility of advanced pebble-bed reactor (PBR) designs, and supports the licensing process for PBRs...Read more about Modeling heat dispersion in pebble-bed reactors: April Novak