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

Savio capacity expands through faculty contributions

October 24, 2016

Faculty contributions drove this year’s increase in computational capacity on Savio, the Berkeley...Read more about Savio capacity expands through faculty contributions

Strong turnout for summer and fall Savio training sessions

October 18, 2016

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) offered two training sessions on how to use Savio, the campus’s high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, in late summer and early fall 2016. Both the introductory session on August 2nd, and the intermediate session on September 27th, drew sizeable and...Read more about Strong turnout for summer and fall Savio training sessions

Extending CollectionSpace: new webapps, new adopters, new features

October 18, 2016

CollectionSpace, the collections management software used by numerous campus museums and supported by Research IT, has been extended over the years by a number of additional web applications (webapps) which provide...Read more about Extending CollectionSpace: new webapps, new adopters, new features