News

The campus’ Savio computing cluster received a major storage upgrade on June 12, 2015, when its Global Scratch file system was quadrupled in size, to a massive 885 terabytes (TB) of storage. The...Read more about Savio cluster storage quadrupled to support Big Data research

LYRASIS announced the release of Version 4.2 of CollectionSpace, its open source, web-based museums collections management and information system, on June 24, 2015. This...Read more about CollectionSpace 4.2 adds Fine & Contemporary Arts Profile, Exhibition support

In Spring 2015 Biostatistics Professor Lexin Li decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform to teach Big Data concepts and practices to graduate students in the School of Public Health....Read more about BRC supports cloud computing for Public Health Big Data course

Please welcome RJ (Ruijing) Li and Regina Xu, UC Berkeley students who have joined the UCB CollectionSpace team for the summer. Regina and RJ are undergraduates majoring in Computer Science. They have completed the initial CS61...Read more about Two student employees join CollectionSpace for the summer

Research IT welcomes IT Architect Jason Christopher to our team. Jason will be working on both the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) and the Research Data...Read more about Research IT welcomes Jason Christopher

For updated news from the September 24, 2015 Town Hall, please see Town Hall spotlights new services for researchers, Savio expansion.

...Read more about Town Hall on launch of BRC Faculty Computing Allowance

On June 9th, Research IT leadership presented on the group’s new and ongoing initiatives at a well-attended session of the One IT Summit. This year’s Summit spanned three days, and included a wide variety of...Read more about RIT presents on new, ongoing initiatives at One IT Summit

inspired by the May 11 Research Data Management Workshop, Rosalie Lack of the California Digital Library reflects on the changing role of the library in her...Read more about Reflections on Research Data Management and the role of the Library

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria constitutes the largest annual gathering of North American digital humanists. 21 members of the UC Berkeley community, including students, faculty, and staff, will be attending...Read more about Research IT Staff at Digital Humanities Summer Institute at University of Victoria

On May 15th, Camille Villa of Research IT met with the Force11 Catalog Working Group on behalf of the DiRT Directory. Force11 is a community of scholars,...Read more about Research IT contributes to Force11 Catalog Working Group