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 during Spring Break: 3/26-3/27

Research IT will not hold office hours during Spring Break on Wednesday, 3/26 and Thursday, 3/27. Please get in touch with us via e-mail in the meantime and we will be happy to assist you.

Data Center Shut Down and Savio Downtime: Fri, 3/28 (5pm) - Tues, 4/1 (8am)

Our campus data center will temporarily shut down on Sunday, March 30, for essential generator work. In conjunction with this work, the Savio cluster will also be offline, starting Friday, March 28, at 5 p.m. until Tuesday, April 1, at 8 a.m. Pacific. A scheduler reservation is in place to ensure no jobs run after 5:00 p.m. on March 28th. If you plan to submit jobs, please ask for proper wall time to complete them before the downtime. Otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queue until the cluster is back online.

Savio is back online: Thurs, 3/13

We have restored the Savio cluster and it is back online. However, your jobs might have failed due to an abrupt power down. Please check your jobs and resubmit or restart if you have checkpoint files. Once again thank you for your patience and understanding.

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News Articles

Getting the sources you need for your text mining project

November 16, 2018

You have a great research question that you want to answer with text data mining (TDM) methods, and you've got some Python under your belt or you've decided to see what you can learn from a browser-based tool like

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Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2018

November 7, 2018

Much of the UC Berkeley campus will be closed, or operating on modified schedules, during the Holiday Energy Curtailment period from December 24, 2018 through January 1, 2019.

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

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Modeling heat dispersion in pebble-bed reactors: April Novak

October 31, 2018

April Novak, a doctoral candidate in UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, works with Asst. Professor Rachel Slaybaugh to develop modeling software that helps validate the safety and feasibility of advanced pebble-bed reactor (PBR) designs, and supports the licensing process for PBRs...Read more about Modeling heat dispersion in pebble-bed reactors: April Novak