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Avaya Messaging, New Voicemail Coming May 20
Telephone Services is pleased to announce a new voicemail service coming May 20 called Avaya Messaging. Your new voicemail service provides a web access portal for managing messages and settings for Lab phones online and a new feature that allows you to define “find me” rules. Read more »
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New Password Reset Service Entering “Registration” Phase
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 23, 2015 As reported in a January article, the IT Division is moving forward with a plan to offer an Enterprise Directory self service password reset service. The next step in the process is to allow existing lab users to register secondary contact information (a non LBL email address or… Read more »
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5+ Incredible IT Training Opportunities Available Now!
Nina Lucido posted on Feb 13, 2015 Register and join us for some exciting training opportunities provided by LBNL-IT! Are you interested in learning how to write programs to get and share scientific data over the web? Looking to learn how to get started quickly with Arduino for a new project? Need to create a pivot… Read more »
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WWW Today Newscenter and WordPress Hosted Sites Scheduled Outage Feb 2 2015 8PM
Adam Stone posted on Jan 26, 2015 WWW, Today, and Newscenter will be under scheduled maintenance beginning at 8PM on February 2, 2015 for 4 hours and will be unavailable. All other wordpress hosted sites will also be under maintenance. No redirection will be in place. No other services will be impacted. Directory services… Read more »
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Archiving Files/Records Class – January 29
Nina Lucido posted on Jan 07, 2015 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 »
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Changes to Identity Management Services in 2015
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 02, 2015 Updates to key dates were made in Mid January. The new employee & affiliate activation process with a short duration one time password starts January 29. Late February and March, current lab employees will be allowed to enter secondary contact information in preparation for an April release of… Read more »
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Curl up by the fireplace in the reading lounge.
Adam Stone posted on Dec 16, 2014 It’s cold and rainy outside, but the reading lounge has something new to warm you up. Come check out our new energy efficient led “fire”place along with our selection of curated books, magazines, and journals. Read more »
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Major IT Outage Scheduled for Friday, December 26
Nina Lucido posted on Dec 11, 2014 To support testing of recently repaired emergency power off (EPO) equipment, a full network outage is scheduled on December 26 from 8:00AM-3:30PM. We expect some services to be restored before 3:30PM. All Laboratory network connectivity, most IT services, and some telephone services will be unavailable. Impacted Services: Numerous,… Read more »
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IT Survey Begins
Adam Stone posted on Dec 09, 2014 IT Division’s triennial user survey kicked off this morning. A statistically valid sample of the laboratory population has been selected by the survey firm retained by IT Division (MOR Associates) and those users received email this morning asking for them to participate in the survey. IT wants to thank… Read more »
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Server Energy Efficiency and Performance Study presented at 2014 Data Center Efficiency Summit
Data centers consume approximately 2 percent of the nation’s electrical energy and roughly half of that is consumed by the IT equipment. Berkeley Lab EETD researcher and lead author Henry Coles and co-author, HPCS consultant Yong Qin from IT, recently published a paper where they evaluate server energy use and efficiency among commercially available servers that appear to be… Read more »
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HPCS at SLURM User Group Meeting
Gary M Jung posted on Sep 22, 2014 High Performance Computing Services systems analyst Jackie Scoggins will be giving a talk about how we recently migrated our scheduling environment, which manages the job scheduling for all of our clusters, cluster condo users, and institutional computing at the Lab and for the UC Berkeley Research Computing program, to the SLURM… Read more »
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Confluence (Commons) upgrade planned for Sept 24
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Sep 17, 2014 Outage Details Date We are planning to upgrade our Commons wiki to Confluence 5.5.6 (from 5.4.3) the evening of Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The outage window will start at 6pm and end at 9pm. Impact In addition to bug fixes, the new version of Confluence has a more robust… Read more »
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HPCS helps researchers set new Microscopy record at the ALS.
Gary M Jung posted on Sep 11, 2014 Researchers at the ALS used “soft” X-rays to image structures only five nanometers in size. This resolution is the highest ever achieved with X-ray microscopy and may have ushered in a new era for nanoscale imaging. Diffraction data is recorded by a high speed CCD camera and fed… Read more »
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