Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) offered two training sessions on how to use Savio, the campus’s high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, in late summer and early fall 2016. Both the introductory session on August 2nd, and the intermediate session on September 27th, drew sizeable and...Read more about Strong turnout for summer and fall Savio training sessions
Michael Black, Head of Research and Information in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, is on a mission. As a Ph.D. Anthropologist, he knows the value and importance of good data. So when the Hearst
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 the state of the project after completing the first of four milestones. This work is funded by a recent grant from the Andrew W. Mellon...Read more about First UI milestone for CollectionSpace UI rewrite
October 24th - 30th is International Open Access Week, a global effort to highlight the connections that Open Access makes possible. The UC Berkeley Library is hosting daily events in collaboration with partners including Research Data Management, Digital Humanities, the Graduate Division, D-...Read more about Open Access Week
The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA) recently found itself with over half a million digital catalog card images that are in active use, but needed to be duplicated in order to preserve them in a redundant, reliable archive. Copying a few hundred, or even a few thousand files is a...Read more about Migrating half a million Hearst Museum images to Box
The next Consulting Summit-- a partnership between the D-Lab, Educational Technology Services (ETS), the Library, and Research IT-- will be held on October 20th from 10 - 3 at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), in 190 Doe Library.
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.
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.
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
A geospatial class at the Digital Humanities at Berkeley Summer Institute (DHBSI) served as a high-visibility testing ground for the ÆoD virtual workstations provided by Berkeley Research Computing (BRC). The widely-used ArcGIS software for geospatial analysis only runs on Windows, leaving...Read more about Research IT supports digital humanities summer institute
