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 cluster storage quadrupled to support Big Data research

July 10, 2015

The campus’ Savio computing cluster received a major storage upgrade on June 12, 2015, when its Global Scratch file system was quadrupled in size, to a massive 885 terabytes (TB) of storage. The...Read more about Savio cluster storage quadrupled to support Big Data research

CollectionSpace 4.2 adds Fine & Contemporary Arts Profile, Exhibition support

June 26, 2015

LYRASIS announced the release of Version 4.2 of CollectionSpace, its open source, web-based museums collections management and information system, on June 24, 2015. This...Read more about CollectionSpace 4.2 adds Fine & Contemporary Arts Profile, Exhibition support

BRC supports cloud computing for Public Health Big Data course

June 25, 2015

In Spring 2015 Biostatistics Professor Lexin Li decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform to teach Big Data concepts and practices to graduate students in the School of Public Health....Read more about BRC supports cloud computing for Public Health Big Data course