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HPC Training: Getting Started with Rocky-8 – April 25
Join ScienceIT for a virtual high-performance computing (HPC) training session on April 25 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. This training will provide an overview of the Rocky-8 testbed environment on the Lawrencium supercluster. Registration is required. Read more »
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Resolved – Data Center Power Outage April 29 12:30AM
Adam Stone posted on Apr 29, 2013 An unscheduled power outage took all systems in the main LBNL datacenter down shortly after midnight on April 29. Cascading impacts also impacted some services outside the datacenter. Production business systems and most other services were restored by IT personnel during the night, though some services were not restored… Read more »
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Resolved – Google Apps Outage April 17 2013
Adam Stone posted on Apr 17, 2013 Update: This appears to be resolved as of ~6:20AM Pacific Google Apps Services (gmail, calendar, docs, etc) are down this morning due to issues at Google. There is no ETA, though past experience suggests these outages have an average duration of < 1 hour. You may be able to… Read more »
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RSC Gold for Gold
Adam Stone posted on Apr 12, 2013 LBNL and the UC Berkeley Library are partnering with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to support free Gold Open Access publishing under the RSC’s Gold for Gold initiative. This program offers voucher codes that enables four LBNL researchers to publish their paper in RSC journals free of charge without paying… Read more »
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Class on Archiving Files/Records on April 25
Nina Lucido posted on Apr 10, 2013 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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HPC Services demos GPU Accelerated Synchrotron Radiation Calculation at GTC 2013
Gary M Jung posted on Mar 18, 2013 An undulator is a periodic structure of magnets through which an electron bunch goes radiating synchrotron light towards the forward direction. It has been widely used at synchrotron light facilities, such as the Advanced Light Source (ALS, US), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, EU), etc. In spectrum calculation,… Read more »
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The Science of Clouds computed on Lawrencium
Gary M Jung posted on Mar 15, 2013 The climate models that scientists use to understand and project climate change are improving constantly, with better representations of the oceans, ice, land surfaces and other factors in the atmosphere. While there is still some degree of uncertainty in all these components, the largest source of uncertainty in… Read more »
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If an email doesn’t seem right, it can be very wrong
Jay Krous posted on Mar 14, 2013 Suspicious feeling leads IT’s Susan Green to report targeted attack Maybe it comes from working for 15 years in Berkeley Lab’s IT Division, but administrative assistant Susan Green likes to keep a close eye on her email, even those messages that end up in her spam folder. On Jan.… Read more »
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Planned Maintenance Outage – Enterprise Directory
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 07, 2013 We plan to take our enterprise directory service down at 10pm, Saturday March 9 for a 30 minute maintenance period. This will impact all authentications to lab systems including cloud based services like Google. For many, this service is commonly known as “LDAP”. It will also impact access… Read more »
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Manymoon to be removed from Google Apps
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 06, 2013 For the past couple of years, Manymoon – an early Google Marketplace tool – has been available through the “More” Menu when logged into any of the core Google Applications. We never found a great business need for this tool. Now that the company has been acquired by… Read more »
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Invitation – A special course for LBNL scientists and program managers on getting the most out of your software development efforts.
Adam Stone posted on Feb 22, 2013 IT is pleased to host a special 2 hour course created just for Berkeley Lab scientists and program managers designed to help you get the most out of your software development projects and avoid common pitfalls. The course will take place Monday March 4 from 2-4pm in Perseverance… Read more »
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Planned Data Center Maintenance – 6:30 PM Feb 13, 2013
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 07, 2013 Maintenance on UPS may impact Collaboration and File/Print Services The IT Infrastructure Dept has scheduled an maintenance window to upgrade a UPS. The goal is to replace an aging unit with a new one. This work may impact some IT Services. The UPS system supports a Network File… Read more »
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Financial Systems – Planned Outage: Feb 8-9
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 07, 2013 Maintenance this Weekend Affects eBuy, TREX, PCard, and Other Financial Services Starting at 2 p.m Feb. 8 and continuing through the weekend, the Lab’s financial systems will be taken offline for maintenance. To prevent an online session from being interrupted, users will need to log out of… Read more »
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