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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

On April 7th, approximately 40 staff from over 15 departments convened at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) for the second Consulting Summit for individuals tasked with supporting research and pedagogy.

At the end of April 2015, Camille Villa will be departing Research IT and the Digital Humanities at Berkeley program to pursue new directions in her career.

Applications are now open for the second annual Digital Humanities at Berkeley Summer Institute (DHBSI). DHBSI will offer intensive training in digital humanities tools and methods from August 15 to 19.

This year’s course offerings include:

On April 7, from 10 AM - 3 PM, BIDS will host the first semiannual consulting summit of 2016.

CollectionSpace has awarded its first ever mini-grants, to museums and collecting institutions in California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Washington.

Research IT has a new logo, and stickers to raise the group’s profile among those who contemplate the backs of laptop lids in labs, libraries, and meeting rooms across the Berkeley campus.

On January 29th, 2016 the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab High Performance Computing Services team hosted Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) program staff and Stanford Resear

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.

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.

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 Computing (BRC) resources, the Science DMZ and associated high-speed networking, and high

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.

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 currently in the process of being generalized for use with a variety of corpora.

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 #LYD16.

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.

On January 31, 2016, the transformation of the "Deco Moderne" former UC Berkeley printing plant into the new home of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (“BAMPFA”) will be complete, and visitors will be able to enter the gallery and view the first exhibit in the new sp