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 »

Whats New with LBL’s Google Applications

July 13, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 13, 2012 Google continually enhances the products they provide to customers. We want to bring some of these to your attention and also give everyone a heads-up on recent efforts by IT’s Google Support Team. We would also like to encourage anyone with a special interest in Google, to join… Read more »
Greening our Datacenter Team Recognized with Director’s Achievement Award and UC Larry Sautter Award

July 12, 2012

The core team responsible for our multi-year initiative to improve the energy efficiency of our research and operational computing datacenter has been recognized with two awards in one month. The team was recognized with a Director’s Achievement Award and a Larry Sautter Award from the University of California. Congratulations to the team! The Pandas thank… Read more »
MyBLIS Heading For Retirement

June 27, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jun 27, 2012 It’s time to say goodby to MyBLIS – the portal that is now used by around 140 customers at the lab. It is based on outdated and unsupported technology and a number of the features that made it attractive when it was introduced are no longer working. It did offer… Read more »
Berkeley Lab Laptop Trends

June 21, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Jun 21, 2012 As you (hopefully) know, IT Division is a big proponent of the importance of researchers choosing the productivity tools they feel most comfortable with. We’ve actually fought pretty hard against some folks to try to convince them what we think is true: the benefits of standardization are meager, and… Read more »
A New Map That’s So Much More

June 20, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Jun 20, 2012 LBNL is a pretty big place. If you’re an employee who hasn’t been around forever, you’ve probably wandered past buildings and wondered what kind of cool science goes on in there. And if you’re a member of the community, outside of tours and websites, you might just get glimpses… Read more »
MS Excel 2010 – Training Schedule

June 6, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Jun 06, 2012 The IT Division is offering a series of Excel training courses over the next six months for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users. In addition, we will also offer a special advanced session titled “Excel for Science” based on feedback we received from our recent LabTech event. To register… Read more »
Matlab Seminars – Tuesday June 12

June 4, 2012

The IT Division is hosting two seminars from Mathworks on Tuesday June 12 in the Bldg 50 Auditorium. You can register with Mathworks using this link which helps us plan for the event (or just show up). 10am – Noon Session 1: Data Analysis and Visualization with MATLAB During this technical presentation, we will introduce specific examples… Read more »
Warewulf featured in HPC Admin Magazine

May 23, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on May 23, 2012 This month’s issue of HPC Admin Magazine features the first in a 4-part series of in-depth articles on how to use the LBNL Warewulf Cluster Toolkit. Warewulf was developed here at Berkeley Lab by HPC Services Greg Kurtzer and it pioneered many of the stateless methods that other cluster toolkits use today.… Read more »
Cloud Bursting for Particle Tracking at IPAC 2012

May 23, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on May 23, 2012 Advanced Light Source (ALS) physicists Changchun Sun and Hiroshi Nishimura along with HPC Services staff Kai Song, Krishna Muriki, Susan James, Yong Qin, Bernard Li, and Gary Jung recently explored several methods to use Amazon’s VPC service to transparently extend the ALS compute cluster, located here at Berkeley… Read more »
Tools for Conference and Meeting Planners

May 22, 2012

Adam Stone posted on May 22, 2012 Scientific conferences, reviews, and meetings are a critical part of our work at Berkeley Lab. IT offers a number of tools to help you with the lifecycle of conference planning. Conference and Meeting Websites Google SitesQuickly make sites for meetings and conferences and share them with the world. LBNL… Read more »
GQueues – New Look and Functionality

May 14, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 14, 2012 The GQueues product continues to improve. If you need a task manager built into our Google Apps Suite of tools, go to the “More” link and click on GQueues. New Look (re-posted from a company announcement) In case you haven’t noticed….GQueues got a facelift this past weekend! The… Read more »
Interruption of Telephone Service on May 15

May 9, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on May 09, 2012 There will be a brief interruption of telephone service for both incoming and outgoing calls including all offsite locations (Potter, JBEI, Leap Frog, and OSF). The AT&T work is scheduled on Tuesday, May 15th 2012 due to telephone network upgrades. Work will begin at 5:30 p.m. and may last… Read more »