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Two new documents on using R and MATLAB on Savio, the campus’s High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, are now available on the Research IT website. 

A new pool of compute nodes is now accessible to users of Savio, the campus’s high-performance computing cluster. The Savio 2 BigMem pool currently offers four nodes with twice the memory of the nodes in the standard Savio 2 pool (128 GB versus 64 GB).

Collaboration among researchers in the curation of digital resources is becoming the norm these days.  However, even if your intention is to make your digital assets available to the research community and to link them appropriately, it can still be challenging to make that happen.

Here's a short and satisfying story of one such collaboration in the field of natural history -- serendipitous to be sure, but likely to become more and more common.

Quinn Dombrowski, Digital Humanities Coordinator in Research IT, participated earlier this month in the Broadening Participation in Visualization workshop held at Purdue University and the University of Illinois.

Smitha Milli, a fourth year Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, is collaborating with David Bamman, Assistant Professor at the Berkeley School of Information, to perform Natural Language Processing (NLP) on fanfiction texts.

Version 4.4 of CollectionSpace, an open source, web-based museums collections management and information system, was released by LYRASIS on July 25, 2016.

Analytics Environments on Demand, or AEoD, is an emerging service that provides remotely-accessed, domain specific, scalable computational environments to UC Berkeley researchers.

Beginning in July 2016, the Google Authenticator application has become the newly-supported tool used for generating one-time passwords (OTPs) by users of Savio and other high-performance computing (HPC) clusters managed by 

Research IT is pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded funds for ongoing software development and sustainability planning for CollectionSpace, an open source collections management tool for museums.

New and prospective users of Savio and other Berkeley Research Computing high performance computing (HPC) clusters (Cortex and Vector) are invited to attend an introductory training session on Tuesday, Au

“Well, I’m not safe near real chemicals,” says UC Berkeley Professor Eric Neuscamman, a theoretical chemist working to develop increasingly accurate and computationally cost-effective methods of modeling electron behavior in molecules.

The Computational Genomics Resource Laboratory (CGRL), a California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) core facility, and Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) have joined forces to reduce the t

Quinn Dombrowski, Digital Humanities Coordinator in Research IT, recently received a travel support award to attend the Broadening Participation in Visualization 2016 (BPViz’16) conference at Purdue University on August 3-4.

Humanities-oriented support for cloud computing at Berkeley has significantly expanded with help from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria.

To assess the stability and safety of proposed nuclear reactor designs, UC Berkeley nuclear engineers utilize the campus High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, Savio, to predictively model the pathways of neutrons as they collide with atoms in the nuclear fuel.

A recently-published Berkeley News article features astrophysicist Alexander Tchekhovskoy’s research on black hole jets, previously discussed in an interview with Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Program Director Patrick Schmitz.

Research IT welcomes Communications Intern Olivia Habern to our team. Olivia will be working collaboratively with the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) group to communicate how diverse scholars are using BRC services.

The campus’s high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, Savio, offers a High Throughput Computing (HTC) pool of compute nodes, enabling research computation that doesn’t fit traditional parallel computing paradigms.

Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS) successfully demonstrated the recently implemented end-to-end integration of a toolkit for prosopographical research last week.

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) and LBNL Storage Lead John White gave a talk on “Lustre in a Condo Computing Environment” at the Lustre Users Group (LUG) in Portland, OR on April 6, 2016. Lus