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

BRC Consulting helps to facilitate Connected Corridors in the Cloud

July 28, 2015

In February 2015, a post to Micronet, a UC Berkeley mailing list for campus IT professionals, led to a BRC Consulting engagement with The Institute of Transportation Studies’...Read more about BRC Consulting helps to facilitate Connected Corridors in the Cloud

Retiring the Museum Informatics and Interactive University projects

July 27, 2015

Though Research IT is heavily focused on the design and delivery of new services to support current research on the Berkeley campus, Research IT team members worked hard in 2014-15 to retire a number of systems and projects that once defined the cutting edge of information

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DH at Berkeley Awards Grants for Collaborative Research and New Courses

July 22, 2015

Digital Humanities at Berkeley, a partnership between the Division of Arts & Humanities and Research IT, is pleased to announce grant awards for collaborative research projects and new courses. Projects range from...Read more about DH at Berkeley Awards Grants for Collaborative Research and New Courses