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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 »

IT Maintenance Outage 12-27-12

December 12, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Dec 12, 2012 IT Maintenance 12-27-12 Overview As part of electrical upgrades to support the next generation of high speed networking, there will be short disruptions to LBL’s internet and local network connectivity on Dec 27th from 6:30AM to 1:30pm. During these outages, all services which rely on LBL networks will be… Read more »
LBNL HPC Services wins the FX10 Championship at SC12

December 5, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on Dec 05, 2012 Berkeley Lab’s HPC Services consultant Yong Qin won the FX10 Championship hosted by Kyushu University at SC12 last month. The FX10 championship is a competition for performance efficiency on your own code on 12 compute nodes of Fujitsu PRIMEHPC FX10, a commercial version of the K-computer (#3 of the… Read more »
HPC Services NHC presentation at SC12

November 13, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on Nov 13, 2012 HPC Services staff Jackie Scoggins and Michael Jennings gave a well-attended presentation on Node Health Check (NHC) software today at the Adaptive Computing booth at SC12. NHC, an open source project developed by Jennings, works in conjunction with Adaptive Computing’s Moab job scheduler and their open source Torque resource manager… Read more »
Warewulf receives Intel Cluster Ready “Explorer” award

November 13, 2012

The Berkeley Lab Warewulf Cluster Toolkit development team has been honored with the ‘Explorer Award’ from the Intel(R) Cluster Ready team at Intel, which recognizes organizations who have continued to explore and implement Intel Cluster Ready (ICR) certified systems. The award was presented to Warewulf developers Greg Kurtzer, Michael Jennings, and Bernard Li of the IT… Read more »
IT Division at Data Center Efficiency Summit 2012

October 30, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on Oct 30, 2012 HPC Services staff member Yong Qin was part of a panel, along with other Berkeley Lab scientists from the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, at the Silicon Valley Data Center Efficiency Summit 2012 last week in San Jose talking about Berkeley Lab’s recently released study to understand the feasibility of implementing Demand… Read more »
Commons Upgrade Scheduled for Sunday, Nov 4

October 30, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Oct 30, 2012 The Plan We will be upgrading Commons to Confluence 4.2 on Sunday, 11/4, starting at 10am. The system will most likely be up within 3 hours, but a number of manual adjustments will be required post-upgrade, causing some pages to have display issues beyond that time. Commons hosts… Read more »
Google Drive User Interface Changes

October 30, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Oct 30, 2012 Gdrive – the new UI will soon become the default Google is going to start rolling out changes related to the Google Drive User interface – here is the current schedule. From 8th November Google will begin showing a banner to all users who have opted out and… Read more »
Advanced Graphics and Visualization Techniques with MATLAB

October 3, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Oct 03, 2012 IT is sponsoring another 2 hour Matlab seminar in the bldg 50 Auditorium on Thursday, October 11 Presenter: Saket Kharsikar, MathWorks Application Engineer Agenda 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Advanced Graphics and Visualization Techniques with MATLAB This session will focus on visualizing data, viewing images, and manipulating graphics in MATLAB.… Read more »
Sophos Anti-Virus Problem Impacting Berkeley Lab

September 19, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Sep 19, 2012 The lab’s standard anti-virus software, Sophos, is continually updated with the latest information about viruses. Today at 1:20pm, Sophos released an update which is causing many clients to incorrectly report they are infected with Shh/Updater-B. If you receive one of these warnings it is safe to ignore it. We… Read more »
BOSS Makes the Biggest Chunk of the Universe Yet Available to the Public

August 9, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on Aug 09, 2012 The first data from BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey led by Berkeley Lab scientists, is now available to the public. Spectroscopic data from over 500,000 galaxies up to 7 billion light years away, more than 100,000 quasars up to 11.5 billion light years away, and many thousands… Read more »
Data Center Utilization Report – July 2012

August 6, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Aug 06, 2012 What was installed: Cluster Support Received NSD cluster of 21 nodes (Not yet operational) Expected power usage is 6kW Business Systems Group None What was removed: Cluster Support Group Approximately 10kW Business Systems Group None July average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE): 1.47 Average Power Consumption: 400 kW IT =… Read more »
NetApp file server “Grouper” Down on Aug 10

August 1, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Aug 01, 2012 The Systems, Application, and Middleware Support Group (SAMS) will perform work on the NetApp file server “Grouper” on Friday Aug 10, 2012 from 6:00pm-10:00pm. This is to replace its current storage controller with a newer model. During this storage upgrade, the services listed below will be unavailable: Commons Conferences… Read more »