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

Wed, 11/26 - Thurs, 11/27: No office hours during Thanksgiving Break

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not be holding office hours on Wed, 11/26 or Thurs, 11/27. Thursday and Friday are university holidays so we will be limited in our responses until we resume service on Monday, 12/1. Please contact us by e-mail in the meantime.

Mon, 10/27: Scratch File System Back Online

We have restored the scratch file system, and it is online now. However, this issue might occur again, so we will continue to work with our vendor, DDN, and the datacenter team to find a permanent solution. We appreciate your patience.

Mon, 10/27: Savio Scratch File System Down

The scratch file system is not accessible due to a power issue affecting one of the racks. The problem causes a significant loss of power to scratch file system controllers, and this has been happening intermittently over the last few weeks. User jobs running in these circumstances might have failed, or scratch I/O might have paused during the time scratch is inaccessible. After investigating with the help of our vendor, DDN, hardware issues have been ruled out. We are working closely with the data center team (DC) to investigate the root cause of the issue and implement measures to prevent it from happening repeatedly. We will provide an update once the investigation is complete.

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News Articles

2017 Binder workshop at UC Davis

January 10, 2018

UC Berkeley’s Research IT group was invited to participate in the 2017 Binder workshop hosted at UC Davis in October of last year. The workshop’s goal was to “enhance and extend the...Read more about 2017 Binder workshop at UC Davis

Success stories from BRC’s undergraduate ops internship program

December 21, 2017

A new team of undergraduate interns joined the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) team this fall, and quickly became an indispensable part of Savio cluster operations. The BRC Ops Intern Program was conceived as a pilot for a BRC undergraduate fellowship program, currently in

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Summit Explores Reach, Inclusion

November 21, 2017

The fifth bi-annual Consulting Summit on November 7 brought together academic support staff and librarians from across the campus to compare experiences providing help to instructors and researchers, and to explore the topic of inclusion and diversity in the services they provide.

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