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 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.

Savio is back online: Thurs, 3/13

We have restored the Savio cluster and it is back online. However, your jobs might have failed due to an abrupt power down. Please check your jobs and resubmit or restart if you have checkpoint files. Once again thank you for your patience and understanding.

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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