Research IT

provides research data and computing technologies, consulting, and community for the UC Berkeley campus. Our goal is to advance research through IT innovation.

Status and Service Updates

No office hours Thanksgiving Break: Wed, 11/27 - Thurs, 11/28

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not be holding office hours on Wed, 11/27 or Thurs, 11/28. Thursday and Friday are university holidays so we will be limited in our responses until we resume service on Monday, 12/2. Please contact us by e-mail in the meantime.

No office hours for Winter Break 12/23-1/14

Research IT office hours will be closed for Winter Break between Monday, 12/23 - Tuesday, 1/14 and resume as normal on Wednesday, 1/15. Please contact us in the meantime at via e-mail.

Savio Scratch file system is back! Sat. 11/16

Our admin team has worked tirelessly to restore the Savio cluster's scratch system. The cluster functionality is now back to normal, and we are thankful for your patience and support throughout the process. We also appreciate users' continuing efforts to clean up and move their (un-needed) files out of scratch. As a part of best practices, we urge users to keep backing up their files from scratch to permanent storage discs and avoid storing massive numbers of tiny files in scratch for long periods.

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News Articles

Berkeley News covers Savio-supported astrophysics research

June 17, 2016

A recently-published Berkeley News article features astrophysicist Alexander Tchekhovskoy’s research on black hole jets, previously discussed in an...Read more about Berkeley News covers Savio-supported astrophysics research

Research IT welcomes Olivia Habern

May 23, 2016

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...Read more about Research IT welcomes Olivia Habern

High Throughput Computing pool on Savio cluster

May 19, 2016

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.

If your compute jobs are loosely-coupled -- with few interdependencies...Read more about High Throughput Computing pool on Savio cluster