IT News

Upcoming Login Screen Refresh Paves the Way for Passkeys

June 9, 2025

In our ongoing efforts to enhance security and user experience across the Berkeley Lab community, IT is preparing for a significant upgrade to our authentication methods with the planned Lab-wide rollout of Passkeys later this year. As an initial step in this transition, we will soon be releasing an update to the authentication screens you… Read more »

Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Developer Training

February 28, 2015

Gary M Jung posted on Feb 28, 2015 Intel is sponsoring a free one-day in-depth training on the Xeon Phi Coprocessor to be held at Perseverance Hall on March 27th, 2015 from 9:00am to 4:00pm. This training will provide software developers the foundation needed for modernizing their code to take advantage of parallel architectures found in… Read more »
IT and ESNet Help ALS Researchers Move their Big Data

February 28, 2015

Gary M Jung posted on Feb 28, 2015 Working at the ALS generates huge amounts of data, and for many years this has caused users to have to carry hard drives and USB drives between the ALS and their home institutions for acquisition and analysis of experimental data. To avoid the physical transport of data and… Read more »
Unscheduled IT Outage Feb 27 2015

February 27, 2015

Adam Stone posted on Feb 27, 2015 Unscheduled outage resulting from power-related problem on Feb 27, 2015 beginning at 3:48 PM. As of 4:50 PM most services are now operational. More at status.lbl.gov Read more »
New Password Reset Service Entering “Registration” Phase

February 23, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 23, 2015 As reported in a January article, the IT Division is moving forward with a plan to offer an Enterprise Directory self service password reset service. The next step in the process is to allow existing lab users to register secondary contact information (a non LBL email address or… Read more »
5+ Incredible IT Training Opportunities Available Now!

February 13, 2015

Nina Lucido posted on Feb 13, 2015 Register and join us for some exciting training opportunities provided by LBNL-IT! Are you interested in learning how to write programs to get and share scientific data over the web? Looking to learn how to get started quickly with Arduino for a new project? Need to create a pivot… Read more »
WWW Today Newscenter and WordPress Hosted Sites Scheduled Outage Feb 2 2015 8PM

January 26, 2015

Adam Stone posted on Jan 26, 2015 WWW, Today, and Newscenter will be under scheduled maintenance beginning at 8PM on February 2, 2015 for 4 hours and will be unavailable. All other wordpress hosted sites will also be under maintenance. No redirection will be in place. No other services will be impacted. Directory services… Read more »
Archiving Files/Records Class – January 29

January 7, 2015

Nina Lucido posted on Jan 07, 2015 Are you running out of space in your office? Are you moving to a new office? Is the size of your office being reduced? Are you responsible for dealing with the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? Are you wondering what to do with all the files you… Read more »
Changes to Identity Management Services in 2015

January 2, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 02, 2015 Updates to key dates were made in Mid January. The new employee & affiliate activation process with a short duration one time password starts January 29. Late February and March, current lab employees will be allowed to enter secondary contact information in preparation for an April release of… Read more »
Curl up by the fireplace in the reading lounge.

December 16, 2014

Adam Stone posted on Dec 16, 2014 It’s cold and rainy outside, but the reading lounge has something new to warm you up. Come check out our new energy efficient led “fire”place along with our selection of curated books, magazines, and journals. Read more »
Major IT Outage Scheduled for Friday, December 26

December 11, 2014

Nina Lucido posted on Dec 11, 2014 To support testing of recently repaired emergency power off (EPO) equipment, a full network outage is scheduled on December 26 from 8:00AM-3:30PM. We expect some services to be restored before 3:30PM. All Laboratory network connectivity, most IT services, and some telephone services will be unavailable. Impacted Services: Numerous,… Read more »
IT Survey Begins

December 9, 2014

Adam Stone posted on Dec 09, 2014 IT Division’s triennial user survey kicked off this morning. A statistically valid sample of the laboratory population has been selected by the survey firm retained by IT Division (MOR Associates) and those users received email this morning asking for them to participate in the survey. IT wants to thank… Read more »
Server Energy Efficiency and Performance Study presented at 2014 Data Center Efficiency Summit

November 5, 2014

Data centers consume approximately 2 percent of the nation’s electrical energy and roughly half of that is consumed by the IT equipment. Berkeley Lab EETD researcher and lead author Henry Coles and co-author, HPCS consultant Yong Qin from IT, recently published a paper where they evaluate server energy use and efficiency among commercially available servers that appear to be… Read more »