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

New Museums and Collections portal featured on UC Berkeley web site

August 17, 2015

Visitors to UC Berkeley's website will find a new portal to museums and collections under the Research section (click the "Museums & collections" link).

This visually engaging page attests to the...Read more about New Museums and Collections portal featured on UC Berkeley web site

Campus CollectionSpace systems migrated to managed servers, databases

July 30, 2015

Research IT has migrated CollectionSpace systems that manage five UC Berkeley museum collections to a consolidated set of centrally-managed hosts and servers. The successful migration was a six-month effort, completed in June 2015. The five systems manage collections at the...Read more about Campus CollectionSpace systems migrated to managed servers, databases

Researchers save money through partial sales tax rate exemption program

July 29, 2015

Researchers who purchase machinery and equipment for use in their research can save considerable sums of money by taking advantage of the California Partial Sales Tax Rate Exemption, in place through June 30, 2022. This exemption, put in place by the California State Board of Equalization,...Read more about Researchers save money through partial sales tax rate exemption program