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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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{Open} MPI, Parallel Computing, the Universe and Everything- Nov 7
Gary M Jung posted on Oct 29, 2013 {Open} MPI, Parallel Computing, the Universe, and Everything Dr. Jeffrey M. Squyres Thursday, November 7th, 2013 2:30pm Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Building 54 (Dining Hall) Room 130 (Perseverance Hall) Click here to RSVP About the talk Open MPI is a high performance, open source implementation of the MPI specification (BSD… Read more »
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Archiving Files & Records Class Offered October 22
Nina Lucido posted on Oct 11, 2013 Are you running out of space in your office, moving to a new office, or tasked with processing the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? As part of American Archives Month, you can learn more about files that need to be kept, which can be archived, which can… Read more »
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Singapore CIOs Visit Berkeley Lab
Adam Stone posted on Sep 24, 2013 42 CIOs and senior business leaders from Singapore visited Berkeley Lab on 9/18 to learn more about the lab’s IT and computing initiatives. The visiting CIOs received an overview of laboratory IT from CIO Rosio Alvarez and an overview of the challenges associated with large data transfer from… Read more »
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Arduino Workshop: August 22nd
Nina Lucido posted on Aug 05, 2013 The IT Division is offering two 3 hour Arduino workshops on Thursday, August 22, from 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-4:00pm in Pers Hall (54-130). The two sessions are identical. The cost of the workshop is FREE. Starter kits will be provided for use in the class. Scientists throughout the world… Read more »
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Webspace Service Restricted to Lab Network (fixed 8/13)
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 30, 2013 Access to the Webspace Service was restricted to the lab’s Network on Monday, July 29. LBNL users can continue to access webspace from onsite, or via VPN. However, many non-LBNL users use webspace to share files with LBNL collaborators. During this restriction, these individuals will not be able… Read more »
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GMail Compose Mode – New Options
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 22, 2013 Google deployed a full-screen mode for the New Compose in Gmail and it is now available to users at LBL. From Google’s announcement …. Key combinations: Hold down Shift when you click the full-screen icon to pop the window out entirely. Holding Shift when you click Compose (or… Read more »
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July 20 Data Center Maintenance
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 19, 2013 Some of our institutional systems will be unavailable Saturday due to electrical work in the IT Data Center. The planned outage window is from 12 noon to 5PM, although some applications will be impacted for a much shorter period of time. At this point, the applications that will… Read more »
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A look back at the “Spill the Hill” Check-in process
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 16, 2013 Background On Thursday, July 11 at 2:30pm, the Lab conducted a real evacuation of the hill for selected buildings. In parallel with this event, all lab employees were encouraged to check-in to report on their personal status as part of the drill. Some groups used traditional phone trees,… Read more »
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New Forms Capability in Google and Smartsheet
New Forms Capability in Google and Smartsheet Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jun 07, 2013 Both Google and Smartsheet have improved their Forms capabilities. Google Forms: Users now have access to a new version of Google Forms. Just as with Docs, Sheets and Slides, you can now collaborate with others in real-time. Multiple users can work… Read more »
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MATLAB SEMINARS – June 11
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 28, 2013 Please join MathWorks at complimentary MATLAB training seminars for Lawrence Berkeley researchers, staff and students. The event features two technical sessions presented by a MathWorks engineer: Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Location Building 50 Auditorium Times: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. –… Read more »
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HPC Resources Unavailable May 18th Weekend
Gary M Jung posted on May 18, 2013 Most HPC resources including Lawrencium LR3 and other compute clusters in the Bldg 50B-1275 datacenter will be unavailable during the May 18 weekend due to facilities work to repair a leak in the cooling systems. Job scheduler reservations and reduced access to cluster resources will be put… Read more »
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Google Unified Storage Announced
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 13, 2013 Google has announced a unified storage plan in which storage is allocated in one bundle to their Google Gmail, Drive and Google+ services. We expect to see this roll out to Enterprise customers after May 21. 5/24/13 – Note: The rollout is now expected to start May 28)… Read more »
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