In recognition of the increasing importance of research computing across many disciplines, UC Berkeley has made a significant investment in developing the BRC High Performance Computing service, as a way to grow and sustain high performance computing for UC Berkeley.
This service, offering and supporting access to the Savio Institutional/Condo Cluster, is intended to provide Berkeley’s campus researchers with state-of-the-art, professionally-administered computing systems and ancillary infrastructure. Beyond its central mission of meeting the campus’s computational research needs, some auxiliary benefits of the cluster include improving competitiveness on grants which favor or require institutional resources, providing an incentive for recruitment and retention, and achieving significant economies of scale with centralized computing systems and data center facilities.