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

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

DH at Berkeley to host inaugural Summer Institute

July 28, 2015

Digital Humanities at Berkeley, a partnership between he Dean of Arts and Humanities and Research IT, will be hosting its first Summer...Read more about DH at Berkeley to host inaugural Summer Institute

BRC Consulting helps to facilitate Connected Corridors in the Cloud

July 28, 2015

In February 2015, a post to Micronet, a UC Berkeley mailing list for campus IT professionals, led to a BRC Consulting engagement with The Institute of Transportation Studies’...Read more about BRC Consulting helps to facilitate Connected Corridors in the Cloud