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

CollectionSpace User Interface Rewrite: Advanced Search and Relating Records

April 19, 2017

Ray Lee of UC Berkeley’s Research IT department is the lead for the CollectionSpace UI rewrite project, code-named “Drydock.” The following piece describes progress in improving advanced search and record-relating functionality in CollectionSpace. This work is funded by a recent grant from...Read more about CollectionSpace User Interface Rewrite: Advanced Search and Relating Records

Biomedical Big Data Training: Call for Nominations Open

April 17, 2017

The Biomedical Big Data Training Program (NIH T32) is pleased to announce the call for nominations for to enroll 6 current PhD students (preferably 2nd or 3rd year) for the second year of the program. The nomination deadline is Friday April 21, 2017.

From...Read more about Biomedical Big Data Training: Call for Nominations Open

Berkeley Research Computing celebrates 1,000 HPC users

April 11, 2017

On April 6th at 2:30 PM, Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) reached a new milestone: the 1000th user account created in the high performance computing (HPC) environment. The...Read more about Berkeley Research Computing celebrates 1,000 HPC users