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

Consulting Summit coming April 7th

March 22, 2016

On April 7, from 10 AM - 3 PM, BIDS will host the first semiannual consulting summit of 2016.

Organized by Research IT in partnership with ETS and many campus groups, this event will provide an opportunity to meet colleagues on campus who provide consulting around research, teaching and...Read more about Consulting Summit coming April 7th

A new logo for Research IT

March 3, 2016

Research IT has a new logo, and stickers to raise the group’s profile among those who contemplate the backs of laptop lids in labs, libraries, and meeting rooms across the Berkeley campus. The team’s own application programmer and experienced graphic designer Amy Wieliczka led a group effort to...Read more about A new logo for Research IT