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To support humanities researchers who wish to take advantage of the cloud computing resources provided by the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) program, two members of the Berkeley digital humanities community will be attending a summer workshop at the University of Victoria. Cody Hennesy, the...Read more about Digital humanities community members to attend cloud computing workshop

The Social Science Matrix is sponsoring a year-long research seminar focused on helping researchers with the reconstruction of social contexts, modeling the relationships between people based upon available data and probabilistic models...Read more about Social Science Matrix sponsors Research Seminar on Berkeley Prosopography Services

A Cyberinfrastructure Engineer funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will soon begin to help researchers adapt and scale research workflows to take advantage of campus cyberinfrastructure including the Berkeley Research...Read more about BRC Program receives NSF grant for Cyberinfrastructure Engineer

A set of fifteen compute nodes equipped with graphics processing units (GPUs) have been added to UC Berkeley’s high performance computing (HPC) cluster, Savio.

If your research can take advantage of the large number of cores offered by GPUs, these new nodes might be a good fit for your...Read more about GPU nodes added to campus's Savio HPC cluster

Berkeley Prosopography Services, a tool for historical social network analysis originally developed for use with an Uruk text corpus from the Hellenistic period (331-46 BCE), is...Read more about Berkeley Prosopography Services and the Tebtunis Papyri

Love Your Data Week is a nationwide campaign designed to raise awareness about research data management, sharing, and preservation. Activities and events will be held from February 8th-12th, 2016 to promote data management awareness. Follow the conversation at...Read more about Love Your Data Week: February 8-12, 2016

The Berkeley Research Computing Program now offers Savio users who have contributed nodes to the condo cluster a way to run more and/or larger jobs at no additional cost.

A new “...Read more about Low Priority Queue allows condo contributors to glean unused cycles on Savio

On January 31, 2016, the transformation of the "...Read more about BAMPFA launches search portal – and moves

The Digital Humanities at Berkeley program, a partnership between the Dean of Arts and Humanities and Research IT, has recently launched three websites that disseminate the research and/or pedagogy of faculty members engaged in digital humanities. While website hosting is not a common-good...Read more about Research websites launch with hosting from Digital Humanities Program

A two-session, introductory workshop on using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for computationally intensive tasks will be held on Monday February 1 and February 8, 2016, from 4:10 to 5:30 p.m., in 1011 Evans Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. The workshop will focus on computations in the areas...Read more about Introductory GPU Computation Workshop: February 1 & 8, 2016