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

Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2016

December 20, 2016

Much of the UC Berkeley campus will be closed, or operating on modified schedules, during the Holiday Energy Curtailment period from December 26, 2016 to January 2, 2017.

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

BRC HPC - The Savio cluster...Read more about Research IT Holiday Curtailment Service Schedule - 2016

Cyberinfrastructure Engineer impact: can your team benefit too?

December 19, 2016

Maurice Manning has recently joined Berkeley's Research IT team as a cyberinfrastructure engineer (CIE), supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, and has already begun to make an impact supporting multiple research teams on campus.

Initial Engagements

Maurice has...Read more about Cyberinfrastructure Engineer impact: can your team benefit too?

Thank you, Jamie Wittenberg!

December 13, 2016

We are very happy to publicly thank Jamie Wittenberg, our Research Data Management Program Director, whose last day at UC Berkeley is December 16, 2016.

Jamie joined us in July 2015 at an incredibly important time for our young Research Data Management program. Because the program had...Read more about Thank you, Jamie Wittenberg!