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  • New requirement on Technology Use During Foreign Travel

    New requirement on Technology Use During Foreign Travel

    In response to increasing cybersecurity and research security threats, Berkeley Lab has updated its Requirements on Technology Use During Foreign Travel to better protect government systems, Lab data, and employees during international trips. These threats, which include the tracking or seizure of government-issued devices, mirror a wider trend seen across the national lab system and… Read more »

  • [Resolved] Smartsheet – Outage [Thursday, February 2, 2017]

    Luis Enrique Corrales posted on Feb 02, 2017 Smartsheet users are currently experiencing connectivity issues to Smartsheet.  We are awaiting information from Smartsheet on this issue and will update this blog post as we obtain more information.  For Smartsheet status, visit this page. Identified – We’re currently experiencing some delay issues with the search and reporting functionality in… Read more »

  • Scheduled Telephony Outage February 4 2017

    Adam Stone posted on Jan 30, 2017 Telephone Services will be performing upgrades to the parts of the Laboratory’s telephone and voicemail systems. The following services will be affected. Between 7:00 am – 8:00 am:  Occupants of buildings 30, 33, 46, 59, 71, 76 and 78 will not be able to receive incoming calls or to place… Read more »

  • [Resolved] Smartsheet Outage – Thursday, January 26, 2017

    Luis Enrique Corrales posted on Jan 26, 2017 Smartsheet is currently experiencing an outage that is affecting access to their service for some users.  We are currently waiting resolution from Smartsheet, but have not received an estimated time of resolution.  For further information on Smartsheet status click here. Update from Smartsheet: Update – This morning at 9:00, Smartsheet… Read more »

  • [Completed] Scheduled Autoreply service Outage for Friday, December 16 at 7PM

    Derrick Johnson posted on Dec 16, 2016 The autoreply.lbl.gov server which runs the autoreply/vacation message service was down for about 2 minutes starting on 12/16 at 7PM for necessary infrastructure maintenance. Any messages sent to @autoreply.bl.gov addresses during the outage have been delivered since the outage has completed. Read more »

  • [Completed] Smartsheet – Planned Outage – December 10, 2016 5 PM to 9 PM Pacific

    Luis Enrique Corrales posted on Dec 08, 2016   Smartsheet will be offline on December 10, 2016 from 5:00 PM Pacific to 9 PM Pacific for system improvements. Read more »

  • SDSC offers new HPC@UC program to UC Researchers

    The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, San Diego, is making major high-performance computing resources available to the UC community. This program, HPC@UC, is being offered in partnership with the UC Vice Chancellors of Research as well as campus CIOs. Awards under this program are intended to… Read more »

  • [Completed] HelloSign – Planned outage for Saturday, November 19th

    Derrick Johnson posted on Oct 24, 2016 This upgrade has been rescheduled for Thursday, November 3 at 5PM The Sympa mailing list server (lists.lbl.gov) will be offline due to a scheduled upgrade on Thursday, November 3, 2016 from 5 PM to 8 PM. This outage will impact all mailing lists provided by lists.lbl.gov including all Level 1… Read more »

  • Juypter Notebook now available on Lawrencium

    We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Jupyter Notebook service to the Lawrencium cluster.Jupyter Notebook is a useful web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. It can also be used to organize your existing data flow, compute, visualization, documentation, as well as publication,… Read more »

  • [Completed] Scheduled Sympa Mailing List Outage for Thursday, November 3 at 5PM

    Luis Enrique Corrales posted on Nov 03, 2016   The Sympa mailing list server (lists.lbl.gov) upgrade is complete. The Sympa mailing list server was offline due to a scheduled upgrade on Thursday, November 3, 2016 from 5 PM to 7:30 PM. This outage impacted all mailing lists provided by lists.lbl.gov including all Level 1 email lists. During the… Read more »

  • software.lbl.gov ongoing issue

    Carlos A Lopez posted on Oct 20, 2016 When accessing software.lbl.gov from off-site or LBNL-Visitor wireless you might encounter an error page or apache test page. Please be advised that issue will be resolved by Monday, 10/24/2016 in the meantime please access the page using VPN connection. If you have questions or need assistance please contact… Read more »

  • Stanford Biologists use LBNL Singularity for HPC Portability

    Biologists and neuroscientists at Stanford have standardized on Singularity for deploying and executing their BIDS  (Brain Imaging Data Structure) stack and bridging their development environments (desktops, workstations, and local servers) to traditional HPC. The workflows can now be distributed, archived and leveraged as well as run on any HPC resources that have Singularity installed. Stanford… Read more »

  • Unscheduled Datacenter and HPC Outage

    Adam Stone posted on Oct 05, 2016 Routine fire protection work led to an unscheduled major data center outage at approximately 11:45AM today Wed Oct 5.  It will take a substantial amount of time to recover HPC systems.   Return to service time not currently known. Read more »

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