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Status and Service Updates

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.

Savio Cluster Returned to Service: Tues, 1/14

The Data Center work at Warren Hall has completed, and the Savio HPC services (login and compute nodes and OOD) are now back online except for Globus. We are still working on fixing some issues with Globus. You may use the DTN to transfer data until Globus is back. Please see the data transfer instructions using the Savio DTN in our documentation at https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/data/transferring-data/ . The Slurm reservation has also been removed, and user jobs have resumed.

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News Articles

A Hackathon for the Free Speech Movement Digital Archive

March 11, 2014

The Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley began its fight for free and open discourse in 1964. As the fiftieth anniversary of this movement draws near, its legacy of openness and the right to seek, receive, and impart information endures. As we consider the importance of open discourse and...Read more about A Hackathon for the Free Speech Movement Digital Archive

A new taxonomy for Digital Research Activities in the Humanities

February 4, 2014

After a year of development and two public comment periods, version 0.5 of the Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities (TaDiRAH) has been released and will be implemented on DiRT in the coming...Read more about A new taxonomy for Digital Research Activities in the Humanities

BRC/LBL NHC Talk at Stanford Exascale Workshop 2014

February 3, 2014

BRC and LBL HPC senior engineer Michael Jennings will be giving a talk on the "Node Health Check (NHC)" on Feb 4, 2014 at the...Read more about BRC/LBL NHC Talk at Stanford Exascale Workshop 2014