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

Botanist finds a bioinformatic home in Savio

October 5, 2017

Before her research led to an appointment as a Research Botanist at The University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley,

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HearstCAVE project presents at ATXpo

October 4, 2017

UC Berkeley’s HearstCAVE project has leveraged teams of undergraduate students to develop new 3D content for the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Research IT’s Quinn Dombrowski presented on this work at

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Gallant Lab neuroscientists map the human brain using OpenStack and Amazon S3

October 3, 2017

How might matter give rise to subjective experience? This question helps drive the Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley to find explanations to the mysteries of neuroscience. The Gallant Lab focuses much of

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