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December 21, 2017

November 21, 2017

The fifth bi-annual Consulting Summit on November 7 brought together academic support staff and librarians from across the campus to compare experiences providing help to instructors and researchers, and to explore the topic of inclusion and diversity in the services they provide. 

November 20, 2017

November 17, 2017

Much of the UC Berkeley campus will be closed, or operating on modified schedules, during the Holiday Energy Curtailment period from December 25, 2017 to January 1, 2018.

Research IT services and support will be operating during this period as follows:

November 6, 2017

In Research IT we believe building partnerships is a key part of growing and sustaining a thriving ecosystem for campus research computing. Our efforts to support cloud computing are one of several ways that we work to build community on our campus, across the UC system, and beyond.

October 5, 2017

October 4, 2017

October 3, 2017

October 2, 2017

Research IT and the Library are happy to welcome Amy Neeser to UCB as our new Research Data Management Program Manager. Amy joins UCB from the University of Michigan where she was the Research Data Curation Librarian. Amy has a joint appointment with the Library and Research IT and has desks in the library Data Lab (Doe 189) and Warren Hall.

September 25, 2017

recent post on the UC IT Blog makes clear the security threat to University researchers: “Cyber attacks don’t just hit big corporations or governments or hospitals. Anything connected to networks is vulnerable, and that includes research and open science.”

September 14, 2017

Berkeley Research Computing staff are preparing for a major upgrade to the high performance computing clusters

The ht_helper utility is available to assist researchers in using Savio, the shared campus high performance computing (HPC) cluster, more efficiently. The utility can make a dramatic difference in maximizing the quantity of computation a researcher can perform using the Berkeley Research Computing Program’s free Faculty Computing Allowance.

September 13, 2017

Research IT hosted a Workforce Strategy Panel at this year’s One IT Summit, facilitated by Aaron Culich

August 28, 2017

This year’s University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) included a new track -- Research IT -- and was hosted at the beautiful UC San Diego (UCSD) campus August 7–9, 2017. The annual conference gathered together over 500 people from all 10 UC campuses, 3 Medical Center campuses, and the Office of the President.

August 25, 2017

It’s the start of Fall semester, and the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Program is recruiting for undergraduate and graduate student positions!

Research Computing Support (undergraduate internships)

August 17, 2017

Growing up in Anyang, in a central region of China greatly impacted by earthquakes, Qingkai Kong was inspired to do research in seismology precisely because earthquakes are serious natural hazards that affect communities worldwide.

August 16, 2017

August 15, 2017

This past year, Research IT’s interns have been working alongside staff to improve the experience of Savio cluster users.

August 11, 2017

Research IT’s innovative approach to supporting digital humanities was on display in multiple venues at the international Digital Humanities 2017 conference, held from August 8-11, 2017 at McGill University in Montreal.

August 2, 2017

Ray Lee of UC Berkeley’s Research IT department is the lead for the CollectionSpace UI rewrite project, code-named “Drydock.” The following piece describes progress in improving record types, template selection, and custom validation functionality in CollectionSpace. This work is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to LYRASIS, CollectionSpace’s institutional home.