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 »

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 »
IT Tests Fuze Meeting Software

January 29, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Jan 29, 2013 As part of our ongoing quest to find the right suite of realtime collaboration tools for Berkeley Lab researchers, IT is testing Fuze Meeting with the Biosciences Directorate. The test will actually be one of if not the largest realtime, interactive, video meetings ever attempted at LBNL (that we… Read more »
Upcoming Training Opportunities

January 23, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Jan 23, 2013 Software Carpentry Boot Camp We are offering our fourth installment of the 2 day training session dedicated to teaching scientists how to be better computer users on May 9-10, 2013, 9:00AM-4:30PM, 54-130 (Pers Hall). The class will cover everything from shell to beginning scientific programming. To register for… Read more »
www outage Wed January 23

January 15, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Jan 15, 2013 There will be a 30 minute outage of www.lbl.gov between 6pm and 8pm on Wed January 23. A small number of other services are also impacted and customers of those services have been notified. Other websites, network connectivity, email, and all other services are not impacted by this… Read more »
Lawrencium LR3 Cluster Now Available

January 15, 2013

Gary M Jung posted on Jan 15, 2013 We are glad to announce the availability of third generation (Lr3) nodes in the Lawrencium cluster which is the Lab’s institutional scientific computational system available for LBNL PI use. We have recently added 108 new compute nodes each equipped with dual-socket eight-core Intel SandyBridge 2.6Ghz processors (16 cores/node) and 64GB of 1600Mhz memory. They are connected… Read more »
Agile Project Mgt Course January 22

January 14, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Jan 14, 2013 IT is pleased to present a one day course on Agile Project Management for the Lab Community. Information from the instructor is below. Please register for the course here. There is no charge to attend. For just any project these days, uncertainty is certain. The customer will change their mind,… Read more »
IT Service Changes Due to Building 46 Relocations

January 7, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Jan 07, 2013 Operations Customers: As you may know, occupants of building 46 are being relocated due to the slide above McMillan road. Workstation Support (MPSG) and the IT Helpdesk were both located in Building 46. We wanted to alert you to possible interruptions to service as a result of… Read more »