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 »

MATLAB SEMINARS – June 11

May 28, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 28, 2013 Please join MathWorks at complimentary MATLAB training seminars for Lawrence Berkeley researchers, staff and students. The event features two technical sessions presented by a MathWorks engineer: Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Location Building 50 Auditorium Times: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. –… Read more »
HPC Resources Unavailable May 18th Weekend

May 18, 2013

Gary M Jung posted on May 18, 2013 Most HPC resources including Lawrencium LR3 and other compute clusters in the Bldg 50B-1275 datacenter will be unavailable during the May 18 weekend due to facilities work to repair a leak in the cooling systems. Job scheduler reservations and reduced access to cluster resources will be put… Read more »
Google Unified Storage Announced

May 13, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 13, 2013 Google has announced a unified storage plan in which storage is allocated in one bundle to their Google Gmail, Drive and Google+ services. We expect to see this roll out to Enterprise customers after May 21. 5/24/13 – Note: The rollout is now expected to start May 28)… Read more »
Performance Reviews – Using Google Docs

April 30, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 30, 2013 Google Docs Performance Review Seminars Scheduled for May 8 and 10 Many divisions are moving to an automated performance review process this year, using a Google-based platform. If your division is participating, you will receive a link to your self assessment form. The IT Division will offer Google Docs… Read more »
Resolved – Data Center Power Outage April 29 12:30AM

April 29, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Apr 29, 2013 An unscheduled power outage took all systems in the main LBNL datacenter down shortly after midnight on April 29. Cascading impacts also impacted some services outside the datacenter. Production business systems and most other services were restored by IT personnel during the night, though some services were not restored… Read more »
Resolved – Google Apps Outage April 17 2013

April 17, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Apr 17, 2013 Update: This appears to be resolved as of ~6:20AM Pacific Google Apps Services (gmail, calendar, docs, etc) are down this morning due to issues at Google. There is no ETA, though past experience suggests these outages have an average duration of < 1 hour. You may be able to… 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 »