Research IT

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Status and Service Updates

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.

Mon, 10/6 & Wed, 10/8: Savio IDM will undergo brief maintenance

The Identity Management Team has planned maintenance this week on Monday, 6th October, and Wednesday, 8th October, from 4 pm to 7 pm. A brief interruption to identity services, particularly those related to Shibboleth, Grouper, identity linking, password reset, group creation, and RADIUS, is expected. Savio/Vector users may experience delays when logging in to the terminal and the OOD web portal during the maintenance window. We will keep you updated on the status if anything changes.

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News Articles

UCB Research IT participates in 2016 Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment (MSDSE) Summit

December 26, 2016

UC Berkeley’s Research IT group participated in the 2016 Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment (MSDSE) Summit, held in New York from October 23-26.

Hosted by NYU, this year’s summit was focused around “building community around data science for research.” The summit brought together...Read more about UCB Research IT participates in 2016 Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment (MSDSE) Summit

Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2016

December 20, 2016

Much of the UC Berkeley campus will be closed, or operating on modified schedules, during the Holiday Energy Curtailment period from December 26, 2016 to January 2, 2017.

Research IT services and support will be operating during this period as follows:

BRC HPC - The Savio cluster...Read more about Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2016

Cyberinfrastructure Engineer impact: can your team benefit too?

December 19, 2016

Maurice Manning has recently joined Berkeley's Research IT team as a cyberinfrastructure engineer (CIE), supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, and has already begun to make an impact supporting multiple research teams on campus.

Initial Engagements

Maurice has...Read more about Cyberinfrastructure Engineer impact: can your team benefit too?