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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

Looking for someone on campus to talk with about your research computing needs, who has a background in statistical consulting or programming? Chris Paciorek and Kelly Rowland are among the newest BRC consultants available to work with you.

Berkeley astrophysicists harnessed the campus supercomputing cluster, Savio, to make important advances in understanding how black holes behave.

For Eduardo Escobar, a PhD student in the Near Eastern Studies department, technology provides both a key theoretical concept and a set of practical tools for his dissertation on cuneiform “recipes” from between the second and first millennium BCE. These “recipes” are documents that share a predictable structure for transmitting procedural knowledge from an expert to a novice.

On April 14, 2016, the release of Singularity 1.0 was announced by Greg Kurtzer, Linux Cluster Architect for Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Program’s Savio cluster and LBNL’s HPC group.

The Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) team is actively investigating ways to enable computation on the shared Savio cluster using researcher-defined environments, and using interactive “notebo