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Accessing HelloSign: Important Update

April 28, 2025

Due to recent changes implemented by HelloSign (now part of Dropbox Sign), the service is no longer accessible through the Google App Launcher, often referred to as the “waffle” menu. Users who previously relied on this quick-access feature will need to adjust their workflow to continue using HelloSign. To access HelloSign moving forward, go directly… 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 »
HPCS at SLURM User Group Meeting

September 22, 2014

Gary M Jung posted on Sep 22, 2014 High Performance Computing Services systems analyst Jackie Scoggins will be giving a talk about how we recently migrated our scheduling environment, which manages the job scheduling for all of our clusters, cluster condo users, and institutional computing at the Lab and for the UC Berkeley Research Computing program, to the SLURM… Read more »
Confluence (Commons) upgrade planned for Sept 24

September 17, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Sep 17, 2014 Outage Details Date We are planning to upgrade our Commons wiki to Confluence 5.5.6 (from 5.4.3) the evening of Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The outage window will start at 6pm and end at 9pm. Impact In addition to bug fixes, the new version of Confluence has a more robust… Read more »
HPCS helps researchers set new Microscopy record at the ALS.

September 11, 2014

Gary M Jung posted on Sep 11, 2014 Researchers at the ALS used “soft” X-rays to image structures only five nanometers in size. This resolution is the highest ever achieved with X-ray microscopy and may have ushered in a new era for nanoscale imaging. Diffraction data is recorded by a high speed CCD camera and fed… Read more »
Announcing the availability of Pivot – a tool to find funding opportunities

August 29, 2014

Adam Stone posted on Aug 29, 2014 IT is proud to launch a 1 year pilot of COS Pivot, a tool for finding funding opportunities. The tool indexes over 20,000 opportunities and presents them in a searchable database. It can also match funding opportunities automatically based on profiles established and edited in the system. Additional… Read more »
New Phonebook Application

July 23, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 23, 2014 New version deployed on July 31 We made some changes to the phonebook after reviewing customer feedback. The screen shot below reflects the new look will surface later Thursday afternoon The Labs phonebook (directory look-up) service is undergoing some changes. It incorporates some of the more advanced search… Read more »
FUZE Video Conferencing Update

July 22, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 22, 2014 A new Windows client from Fuze is now available – go to fuze.com/download to install it. The Fuze client is installed on 46 Video Cart/Office Systems (the Mac Version) – and with the release of the latest Windows client a unified look and feel is consistent across laptop and desktop… Read more »