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Why Desk Phones Matter for Emergency Calls at Berkeley Lab

March 25, 2026

When responding to an emergency at Berkeley Lab, the way you place a call to 911 can make a critical difference. Dialing 911 from your desk phone provides a rapid, dual-agency response from the police and our on-site Security Emergency Services (SES) team. Because desk phones are tied to a specific physical location, Berkeley Lab Read more »

Run on Lawrencium for Free – New Low Priority QoS

March 28, 2016

We are pleased to announce the “Low Priority QoS (Quality of Service)” pilot program which allows users to run the Lawrencium Cluster resources at no charge when running at a lower priority.This program, tested by Lawrencium Condo users, is now available to all Lawrencium users. We hope by implementing such a solution, it would help users to increase their productivity by… Read more »
Archiving Files and Records Workshop on April 22

March 26, 2016

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 National Records and Information Management Month, you’ll learn which files need to be kept, which can be archived, and which can be disposed of at a… Read more »
Smartsheet Scheduled Outage (March 11, 2016)

March 11, 2016

Luis Enrique Corrales posted on Mar 11, 2016 Smartsheet will be offline on March 11, 2016 starting at 8:00 PM PST for approximately 15 minutes for system improvements. Read more »
Enterprise Directory Scheduled Upgrade (March 12, 2016)

March 11, 2016

Luis Enrique Corrales posted on Mar 11, 2016 The Identify Services team will be performing upgrades to the Enterprise Directory backend this weekend (March 12 and March 13). Precautions will be taken to mitigate any downtime of the Enterprise Directory, but there may be some instability of the service between 10 AM and 1 PM on Read more »
NHC Talk at Stanford Exascale Conference

February 20, 2016

HPC Services engineer Michael Jennings gave a talk on the “Node Health Check (NHC)” on Feb 24, 2016 at the Stanford Conference and Exascale Workshop 2016 sponsored by the HPC Advisory Council. NHC, developed by Jennings, provides the framework and implementation for a highly reliable, flexible, extensible node health check solution. It is now widely recommended by major HPC job Read more »
Smartsheet Scheduled Outage (February 13, 2016)

February 12, 2016

Luis Enrique Corrales posted on Feb 12, 2016 Smartsheet will be offline on February 13, 2016 starting at 1:00 PM PST and until approximately 5 PM PST for system improvements. Read more »
Fri Dec 25 – Unscheduled outage of authentication services – resolved

December 25, 2015

Adam Stone posted on Dec 25, 2015 We experienced an unscheduled outage of all authentication services including login.lbl.gov, ldap, OTP/pledge and other directory services on Christmas morning. Network engineers resolved the outage. Read more »
Holiday Maintenance Outages 2015 December

December 18, 2015

Networking and Telecom will take numerous short (1-2 hour) outages December 29-30 and one longer outage. The longest of these will take place December 29th which will impact AT&T mobile phone access, and traditional telephones at offsite buildings and the guest house, as well as VPN. The outage window for this outage is based on… Read more »
Scheduled Power Work Impact on IT Systems (Friday, December 18, 2015)

December 15, 2015

Luis Enrique Corrales posted on Dec 15, 2015 The scheduled power work of December 18, 2015 will impact authentication to Lab services, email delivery and access to eRoom and Sympa lists starting at 5:30 PM. Authentication to Lab services and email delivery will be impacted for approximately 15 to 30 minutes; access to eRoom and Sympa Read more »
ZOOM selected as Video Conferencing Tool

November 25, 2015

After testing ZOOM (a product chosen by ESNet last year) and comparing functionality and cost to our prior offering, we have decided to make a change. In December we will start deployment and training which allows a one month overlap with the current tool while we make the transition. (We will continue to offer and… Read more »
Linux Foundation OpenHPC project uses LBNL Warewulf

November 25, 2015

The Linux Foundation the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, has announced an intent to form the OpenHPC Collaborative Project. This project will provide a new, open source framework to support the world’s most sophisticated High Performance Computing environments. Warewulf, our cluster provisioning tool developed by IT’s HPC architect Greg Kurtzer, is specified… Read more »
Smartsheet Planned maintenance – November 7, 2015

November 6, 2015

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 06, 2015 Smartsheet will be offline for 90 minutes on November 7 at 1:00pm PST (2015-11-07 21:00 UTC) for system improvements. Smartsheet status can be checked here. Read more »