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

Patrick Schmitz receives 2017 Excellence in Management Award

May 1, 2017

We are glad and grateful to announce that Patrick Schmitz, Associate Director of Research IT, has received an Excellence in Management Award from the...Read more about Patrick Schmitz receives 2017 Excellence in Management Award

Oliver Muellerklein joins BRC as a domain consultant

April 25, 2017

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) is pleased to announce the addition of PhD student Oliver Muellerklein to the...Read more about Oliver Muellerklein joins BRC as a domain consultant

Digital Humanist aims to run OCR over a terabyte of rare book scans

April 20, 2017

Since his college days at Brigham Young University (BYU), Adam Anderson has been measuring evenings and weekends in pages, rather than hours. “You can scan about 400 pages an hour, once you get in the groove,” he explains. Anderson, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at UC...Read more about Digital Humanist aims to run OCR over a terabyte of rare book scans