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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 »

RSC Gold for Gold

April 12, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Apr 12, 2013 LBNL and the UC Berkeley Library are partnering with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to support free Gold Open Access publishing under the RSC’s Gold for Gold initiative. This program offers voucher codes that enables four LBNL researchers to publish their paper in RSC journals free of charge without paying… Read more »
Class on Archiving Files/Records on April 25

April 10, 2013

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 10, 2013 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 »
HPC Services demos GPU Accelerated Synchrotron Radiation Calculation at GTC 2013

March 18, 2013

Gary M Jung posted on Mar 18, 2013 An undulator is a periodic structure of magnets through which an electron bunch goes radiating synchrotron light towards the forward direction. It has been widely used at synchrotron light facilities, such as the Advanced Light Source (ALS, US), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, EU), etc. In spectrum calculation,… Read more »
The Science of Clouds computed on Lawrencium

March 15, 2013

Gary M Jung posted on Mar 15, 2013 The climate models that scientists use to understand and project climate change are improving constantly, with better representations of the oceans, ice, land surfaces and other factors in the atmosphere. While there is still some degree of uncertainty in all these components, the largest source of uncertainty in… Read more »
If an email doesn’t seem right, it can be very wrong

March 14, 2013

Jay Krous posted on Mar 14, 2013 Suspicious feeling leads IT’s Susan Green to report targeted attack Maybe it comes from working for 15 years in Berkeley Lab’s IT Division, but administrative assistant Susan Green likes to keep a close eye on her email, even those messages that end up in her spam folder. On Jan.… Read more »
Planned Maintenance Outage – Enterprise Directory

March 7, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 07, 2013 We plan to take our enterprise directory service down at 10pm, Saturday March 9 for a 30 minute maintenance period. This will impact all authentications to lab systems including cloud based services like Google. For many, this service is commonly known as “LDAP”. It will also impact access… Read more »
Manymoon to be removed from Google Apps

March 6, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 06, 2013 For the past couple of years, Manymoon – an early Google Marketplace tool – has been available through the “More” Menu when logged into any of the core Google Applications. We never found a great business need for this tool. Now that the company has been acquired by… Read more »
Invitation – A special course for LBNL scientists and program managers on getting the most out of your software development efforts.

February 22, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Feb 22, 2013 IT is pleased to host a special 2 hour course created just for Berkeley Lab scientists and program managers designed to help you get the most out of your software development projects and avoid common pitfalls. The course will take place Monday March 4 from 2-4pm in Perseverance… Read more »
Planned Data Center Maintenance – 6:30 PM Feb 13, 2013

February 7, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 07, 2013 Maintenance on UPS may impact Collaboration and File/Print Services The IT Infrastructure Dept has scheduled an maintenance window to upgrade a UPS. The goal is to replace an aging unit with a new one. This work may impact some IT Services. The UPS system supports a Network File… Read more »
Financial Systems – Planned Outage: Feb 8-9

February 7, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 07, 2013 Maintenance this Weekend Affects eBuy, TREX, PCard, and Other Financial Services Starting at 2 p.m Feb. 8 and continuing through the weekend, the Lab’s financial systems will be taken offline for maintenance. To prevent an online session from being interrupted, users will need to log out of… Read more »
Big Data – Computational Pipeline uses Lawrencium to Analyze Tumors

February 1, 2013

Gary M Jung posted on Feb 01, 2013 Berkeley Lab scientists led the development of an algorithm and a computational pipeline, making extensive use of the Lawrencium Cluster, that analyzes large sets of tumor images. Their work will help scientists learn more about the genetic and molecular mechanisms that control tumor signatures. It will also shed light… Read more »
Lawrencium Maintenance Scheduled for Tuesday Feb 12th

January 31, 2013

Gary M Jung posted on Jan 31, 2013 We have scheduled a regular maintenance for all the clusters in our supercluster infrastructure on Tuesday, Feb 12th from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. We are in need of taking this downtime to address some stability issues with our job scheduler which has impacted our users. User logins… Read more »