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

Grand Opening of the Academic Innovation Studio

September 30, 2016

The Academic Innovation Studio (AIS) celebrated its grand opening on September 21, 2016 by welcoming faculty and staff into the new space for food and festivities.

Jenn Stringer, the Associate CIO for Academic Engagement, remarked on how space scarcity on campus opened up an opportunity...Read more about Grand Opening of the Academic Innovation Studio

New Self-service Tools for Contributing Calisphere Content

September 29, 2016

Collection management staff of digital collections across all ten University of California campuses can now use self-service tools to submit digital content as well as associated metadata for publication into Calisphere.

Calisphere, a product of the University of California Libraries' UC...Read more about New Self-service Tools for Contributing Calisphere Content

Atmospheric chemists use Savio to build computational gas emission models

September 28, 2016

Ron Cohen, Professor of Chemistry and Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Berkeley, and graduate students Alexis Shusterman, Josh Laughner, and visiting Harvard graduate student Alex Turner, are “trying to create a model of the world that matches the observations of the world.” That is, Cohen’s...Read more about Atmospheric chemists use Savio to build computational gas emission models