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| Berkeley Research Computing | |
|---|---|
| Name | Berkeley Research Computing |
| Type | Research computing service |
| Location | Berkeley, California |
| Parent | University of California, Berkeley |
Berkeley Research Computing is the central research computing organization at the University of California, Berkeley, providing computational infrastructure, consulting, and training to campus researchers. It supports projects across departments, institutes, and laboratories by coordinating high-performance computing, data storage, cloud resources, and software engineering. The organization interfaces with external consortia, national laboratories, and funding agencies to enable interdisciplinary science and engineering.
Berkeley Research Computing operates within the University of California, Berkeley ecosystem and liaises with units such as the College of Engineering, College of Letters and Science, Berkeley Lab, Energy Biosciences Institute, and Innovative Genomics Institute. It manages partnerships with organizations including the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, National Institutes of Health, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory while collaborating with computational centers like the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and Texas Advanced Computing Center. The group supports faculty affiliated with centers such as the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, Center for Computational Biology, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Materials Sciences Division, and Molecular Foundry.
The unit traces roots to campus initiatives emerging alongside computing milestones tied to institutions like the Boalt Hall School of Law computing programs and campus deployments influenced by projects at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Space Sciences Laboratory. During the 1990s and 2000s it aligned with movements driven by grants from the National Science Foundation, collaborations with the Berkeley Lab, and infrastructure efforts paralleling national projects such as the Human Genome Project and the Large Hadron Collider computing programs. In subsequent decades it evolved in response to cloud offerings from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, while engaging with policy and funding discussions involving the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Research Council.
Berkeley Research Computing provisions high-performance computing clusters influenced by architectures seen at Hewlett-Packard, Cray Research, and IBM installations, and integrates storage systems analogous to those funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and supported by vendor ecosystems like NVIDIA, Intel Corporation, AMD, Dell Technologies, and NetApp. It facilitates container platforms similar to those used by the OpenStack Foundation community, implements identity management interoperable with Internet2 federations, and provides workflow tools comparable to Cromwell and Nextflow. The service portfolio includes compute nodes, GPU accelerators used in projects like ImageNet training, parallel file systems reminiscent of deployments in the PetaLibrary era, and cloud brokerage arrangements reflecting agreements with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory partners.
The organization supports interdisciplinary research spanning groups such as the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Department of Statistics, Department of Physics, and the Haas School of Business research initiatives. It collaborates on externally funded projects with entities like the Simons Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and agencies including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Defense research programs. Joint efforts with laboratories such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory address large-scale simulations, while partnerships with companies such as Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, Google, and IBM accelerate translation of research into production.
Berkeley Research Computing delivers training modules for students and researchers aligned with curricula from units like the Graduate School of Education, School of Public Health, College of Chemistry, and departments including Computer Science and Biology. Workshops cover tools popularized by communities around GitHub, Jupyter Project, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and RStudio while drawing pedagogical practices from initiatives sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. Training collaborations extend to campus programs such as the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, and graduate training via the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
Governance structures include oversight by campus administration offices like the Office of the Chancellor and financial coordination with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Funding streams combine campus allocations, recharge models, and sponsored awards from agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, and philanthropic support from foundations such as the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Simons Foundation. Strategic direction is informed by advisory committees that involve stakeholders from units like the College of Engineering, Berkeley Lab, School of Information, and external partners including Internet2 and the Open Source Initiative.
Berkeley Research Computing has enabled projects spanning climate modeling by researchers connected to the Berkeley Earth project, genomics analyses linked to the Human Genome Project successor studies, machine learning efforts from the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab and winners of NeurIPS competitions, and materials simulations relevant to publications in Nature and Science. Notable collaborations include computational support for groups participating in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope data pipelines, contributions to workflows used in the COVID-19 research response, and infrastructure that underpinned multidisciplinary grants awarded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The unit’s work has been cited in studies affiliated with the Simons Institute, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and projects connected to the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science.