Software is as important as data when it comes to building upon existing scholarship. However, while there has been a small amount of research into how researchers find, adopt, and credit software, there is currently a lack of empirical data on how researchers use, share, and value software and...Read more about Survey launched about “Understanding researcher needs and values about software”
An initial cohort of Berkeley researchers has already made productive use of an experimental, powerfully-provisioned server loaned to UC Berkeley by the Pacific Research Platform (PRP) project and configured with JupyterHub. This free resource is administered by a partnership between Berkeley...Read more about A free & fully-loaded JupyterHub server supports campus research computation
Ray Lee of UC Berkeley’s Research IT department is the lead for the CollectionSpace UI rewrite project, code-named “Drydock.” The following piece describes progress in improving search functionality in CollectionSpace. This work is funded by a recent grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...Read more about Improving CollectionSpace Search
If you’re a Berkeley researcher in need of significant computing power, the HPC@UC program can provide rapid access to high performance computing (HPC) resources at the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC).
Research IT is seeking a talented current UC Berkeley undergraduate or graduate student student to join our team as a Writing/Storytelling Intern, to help us develop news stories / case studies about how researchers use computing, to be published on the Research IT website and other campus news...Read more about Research IT seeks Writing/Storytelling Intern
Effective today, UC Berkeley campus faculty and their research teams will be receiving 50% more free compute time on the campus’s high-performance computing cluster, Savio.
What do the Phanerozoic eon and Precision Medicine have in common? For one thing: the statistical analyses of Alan Hubbard, UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Biostatistics, and head of the Division of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health.
Research IT Director David Greenbaum and Digital Humanities Coordinator Quinn Dombrowski represented UC Berkeley among the presentations at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) winter meeting in Washington, D.C. on December 12-13. This annual event convenes library directors and CIOs...Read more about Research IT presents on museum collections, digital humanities at CNI 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:
