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The Technology Powering the Science: A Q&A with CIO Adam Stone
From powering scientific discoveries to keeping your laptop running smoothly, the Lab’s IT Division touches nearly every part of our work. Elements sat down with Chief Information Officer Adam Stone to learn how his team supports both cutting-edge research and everyday operations. Read the whole story here. Read more »
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PC Gamers Use 75 Billion Kilowatt Hours
Why would this article be featured in IT Spotlight? The Green Gaming Project was a collaboration between Science and IT. Evan Mills and Norm Bourassa, senior scientists from the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division, worked together with a group of avid gamers from the IT Workstation Support Group to measure the energy consumption from… Read more »
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Endless Reboot Loop Due to macOS High Sierra Update
ProblemThe IT User Support Group has had several calls from customers this morning regarding the endless reboot loop of their system after installing the latest High Sierra macOS update. Error message is,“The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.”The system then enters an endless… Read more »
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Major Power Disruption Leads to Outage
On Oct 22, a major power disruption to the 50 Complex required shutdown of all institutional business and science systems.Power is still out to Building 50.Lab Business Systems are restored to service, but may be shut down again since they are operating on temporary cooling.Science systems are dependent on full restoration of power to Building… Read more »
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Poodle Resources
Created by James Welcher, last modified by Jay Krous on Oct 17, 2018 Poodle Resources Vulnerability Description and Assessment: The “Poodle” vulnerability is a protocol weakness in SSL 3.0. An attacker sitting between a client browser and a webserver could issue a man-in-the-middle attack and decrypt the encrypted SSL traffic. SSL 3.0 is a very… Read more »
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Help IT Automate Your Asset Inventory
This year a pilot program between IT and Berkeley Lab Property Management used BigFix in the Lab’s Wall-to-Wall inventory campaign to certify the existence of a DOE tagged asset. Any DOE-barcoded system running BigFix and present on the LBL network can be automatically verified for inventory purposes, without the barcode being scanned. This saves property… Read more »
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High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, Large-Scale Computing Aid Study of Early Universe
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring designed to investigate quark-gluon plasma, the primitive matter that filled the early universe. Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division, in partnership with IT’s Scientific Computing Group, has recently established a new site on the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid to provide… Read more »
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How do you study matter at the beginning of the universe? With high-energy nuclear collisions and large-scale computing
By Erica Yee • August 28, 2018 The Science IT Profiles series highlights how the Scientific Computing Group supports the work of Berkeley Lab researchers spanning various disciplines. Scientists can’t go back in time to witness the origin of the universe, so they do the next best thing: recreate the conditions of… Read more »
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Materials Project Connects Computational, Experimental Materials Science
Thomas Edison tested thousands of materials before discovering the right one for his electric lightbulb. Materials scientists today are only recently transitioning from the “Edisonian” way of discovery to data-driven “materials by design.” Using supercomputing, Materials Project researcher Shyam Dwaraknath and other Lab scientists are helping to bridge the gap from computer simulations to real-world… Read more »
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HPC enables record-breaking ptychographic imaging at the ALS
Scientists at the Advanced Light Source are using the new COSMIC Imaging beamline and a high-performance data pipeline implemented by the IT Division’s Scientific Computing Group to turn large datasets of X-ray diffraction data into high-resolution images. With a technique called ptychographic computed tomography, the researchers recently mapped locations of nanoscale reactions inside a lithium-ion… Read more »
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High-performance computing enables record-breaking ptychographic imaging at the ALS
By Erica Yee • August 2, 2018 The Science IT Profiles series highlights how the Scientific Computing Group supports the work of Berkeley Lab researchers spanning various disciplines. Technologies from smartphones to electric cars are becoming indispensable, but they’re only useful as long as their batteries have juice. In order to build longer-lasting… Read more »
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IT Division’s Jackie Scoggins selected as ‘Women at the Lab’ honoree
The Scientific Computing Group’s Jackie Scoggins is one of sixteen women being recognized for their dedication, talent, STEM contributions, and commitment to the Lab’s mission. The awards ceremony will be on July 9, 2018 at 3:00 pm Read more »
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The Berkeley Lab Technology Toolkit
The Berkeley Lab Technology Toolkit is what we call the set of services we provide for every employee at the Lab at no recharge. We try to make sure that the most important services everyone needs are covered as part of the Toolkit. Here’s an overview of what’s in the toolkit (aka funded by overhead… Read more »
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