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Status and Service Updates

Savio Downtime: Thurs, 2/20-Fri, 2/21, 2025

DDN engineers will visit the data center to perform cabling work on the Savio parallel file system, which is expected to resolve ongoing filesystem issues. We will shut down the file system at 8:00 AM on Thursday, February 20, and return the service by 5:00 PM on Friday, February 21. A Slurm reservation is in place to prevent jobs from running during the downtime. If you plan to submit jobs, please request proper walltime for them to be completed before 8 AM on February 20. Otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queue until the cluster is back online.

Globus Returned to Service: Wed, 1/15

Globus is back in production and available to users on Savio.

Savio Cluster Returned to Service: Tues, 1/14

The Data Center work at Warren Hall has completed, and the Savio HPC services (login and compute nodes and OOD) are now back online except for Globus. We are still working on fixing some issues with Globus. You may use the DTN to transfer data until Globus is back. Please see the data transfer instructions using the Savio DTN in our documentation at https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/data/transferring-data/ . The Slurm reservation has also been removed, and user jobs have resumed.

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News Articles

Introduction to High Performance + Remote Computing

February 3, 2022

Not sure what HPC stands for and why you might use large-scale computing? Running jobs on your laptop overnight? Unclear what “remote” means when it comes to working with data? This session will provide an overview of remote and high-performance computing terminology, architecture, and...Read more about Introduction to High Performance + Remote Computing

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 031: COVID-19 research using data science & Azure

January 27, 2022

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Using data science and the cloud to better understand coronaviruses and COVID-19

This month's meetup showcases two UC Berkeley research groups’ use of Azure cloud services to meet research challenges of their award as part of the C3.ai Digital...Read more about UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 031: COVID-19 research using data science & Azure