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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

Jupyter Notebooks on HPC: workshop on March 7, 2017

March 2, 2017

A workshop will be offered Tuesday, March 7, 2017 on the use of Juypter notebooks on Savio, the UC Berkeley campus’s high-performance computing (HPC) cluster and on the other Berkeley Research Computing HPC clusters, Cortex and Vector.

The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that...Read more about Jupyter Notebooks on HPC: workshop on March 7, 2017

BRC pilots Instructional Computing Allowances

February 21, 2017

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) is conducting a series of pilots to provide Instructional Computing Allowances to instructors who need significant computational resources for their classes. The first of these is beginning this semester (Spring 2017).

Classes across many departments are...Read more about BRC pilots Instructional Computing Allowances

Love Your Data Week 2017

February 21, 2017

Love Your Data Week campaign comes to campus February 13th-17th to encourage and teach researchers how to manage, secure, publish, and license their data. The University Library and the Research Data Management Program will host a set of LYD Week events. Graduate students, researchers,...Read more about Love Your Data Week 2017