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D-Lab Classes for April 2026

April 2, 2026

Science IT @ LBL has partnered with D-Lab to offer free, engaging workshops on the latest IT applications. Upcoming workshops include Python, R Programming, and Tidyverse. Sign up for a free class today! Read more »

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

December 16, 2016

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

December 8, 2016

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

November 23, 2016

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

November 15, 2016

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

November 11, 2016

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

November 3, 2016

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

October 20, 2016

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

October 7, 2016

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

October 5, 2016

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 »
[Resolved] Google experiencing issues with access to accounts (September 14, 2016)

September 14, 2016

Luis Enrique Corrales posted on Sep 14, 2016 Google experienced an issue where some users are unable to login to their Google Accounts. Google’s product engineering team investigated and resolved this situation as of 9/15. For status of this issue from Google click here. Read more »
[Resolved] Google Experiencing Issues with Slides (September 1, 2016)

September 1, 2016

Jennifer Brown posted on Sep 01, 2016 Google is currently experiencing issues with Google Slides. For status on this issue from Google visit the Google Apps Status Dashboard. Read more »
Excel not opening downloads in Windows 10

August 26, 2016

If you are having an issue with Excel not opening downloads in Windows 10, you may need to change your protected view setting.In Excel go to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Protected View, and then uncheck "Enabled Protected View" for files originating from the Internet.If you are still having… Read more »