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 »

Outage Nov 6 2013

November 6, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Nov 06, 2013 The failure of a piece of power distribution hardware in one the datacenters in building 50 led to a ~20 minute outage of key IT services on Nov 6. Services impacted included www.lbl.gov, commons, some directory services, email delivery, and numerous other services on two subnets. The outages began… Read more »
Deployment Starts for New Video Conferencing Systems

November 1, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 01, 2013 As part of a lab initiative last year, the IT Division developed a new approach to Video Conferencing Systems that addresses the needs of customers who join via desktop, laptop, or mobile devices. After reviewing industry trends, the results of peer reviews, and our own recent experience, it… Read more »
Google Releasing New “Google Bar”

November 1, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 01, 2013 The black menu bar Google users have become accustomed to over the past year is being replaced over the next few days. The new look is show below – assuming you happen to be in the Calendar Application. It features an application launcher which is on the same… Read more »
{Open} MPI, Parallel Computing, the Universe and Everything- Nov 7

October 29, 2013

Gary M Jung posted on Oct 29, 2013 {Open} MPI, Parallel Computing, the Universe, and Everything Dr. Jeffrey M. Squyres Thursday, November 7th, 2013 2:30pm Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Building 54 (Dining Hall) Room 130 (Perseverance Hall) Click here to RSVP About the talk Open MPI is a high performance, open source implementation of the MPI specification (BSD… Read more »
Archiving Files & Records Class Offered October 22

October 11, 2013

Nina Lucido posted on Oct 11, 2013 Are you running out of space in your office, moving to a new office, or tasked with processing the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? As part of American Archives Month, you can learn more about files that need to be kept, which can be archived, which can… Read more »
Singapore CIOs Visit Berkeley Lab

September 24, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Sep 24, 2013 42 CIOs and senior business leaders from Singapore visited Berkeley Lab on 9/18 to learn more about the lab’s IT and computing initiatives. The visiting CIOs received an overview of laboratory IT from CIO Rosio Alvarez and an overview of the challenges associated with large data transfer from… Read more »
Arduino Workshop: August 22nd

August 5, 2013

Nina Lucido posted on Aug 05, 2013 The IT Division is offering two 3 hour Arduino workshops on Thursday, August 22, from 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-4:00pm in Pers Hall (54-130). The two sessions are identical. The cost of the workshop is FREE. Starter kits will be provided for use in the class. Scientists throughout the world… Read more »
Webspace Service Restricted to Lab Network (fixed 8/13)

July 30, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 30, 2013 Access to the Webspace Service was restricted to the lab’s Network on Monday, July 29. LBNL users can continue to access webspace from onsite, or via VPN. However, many non-LBNL users use webspace to share files with LBNL collaborators. During this restriction, these individuals will not be able… Read more »
GMail Compose Mode – New Options

July 22, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 22, 2013 Google deployed a full-screen mode for the New Compose in Gmail and it is now available to users at LBL. From Google’s announcement …. Key combinations: Hold down Shift when you click the full-screen icon to pop the window out entirely. Holding Shift when you click Compose (or… Read more »
July 20 Data Center Maintenance

July 19, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 19, 2013 Some of our institutional systems will be unavailable Saturday due to electrical work in the IT Data Center. The planned outage window is from 12 noon to 5PM, although some applications will be impacted for a much shorter period of time. At this point, the applications that will… Read more »
A look back at the “Spill the Hill” Check-in process

July 16, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 16, 2013 Background On Thursday, July 11 at 2:30pm, the Lab conducted a real evacuation of the hill for selected buildings. In parallel with this event, all lab employees were encouraged to check-in to report on their personal status as part of the drill. Some groups used traditional phone trees,… Read more »
New Forms Capability in Google and Smartsheet

June 7, 2013

New Forms Capability in Google and Smartsheet Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jun 07, 2013 Both Google and Smartsheet have improved their Forms capabilities. Google Forms: Users now have access to a new version of Google Forms. Just as with Docs, Sheets and Slides, you can now collaborate with others in real-time. Multiple users can work… Read more »