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New requirement on Technology Use During Foreign Travel

June 24, 2025

In response to increasing cybersecurity and research security threats, Berkeley Lab has updated its Requirements on Technology Use During Foreign Travel to better protect government systems, Lab data, and employees during international trips. These threats, which include the tracking or seizure of government-issued devices, mirror a wider trend seen across the national lab system and… Read more »

IT Survey Begins

December 9, 2014

Adam Stone posted on Dec 09, 2014 IT Division’s triennial user survey kicked off this morning. A statistically valid sample of the laboratory population has been selected by the survey firm retained by IT Division (MOR Associates) and those users received email this morning asking for them to participate in the survey. IT wants to thank… Read more »
Server Energy Efficiency and Performance Study presented at 2014 Data Center Efficiency Summit

November 5, 2014

Data centers consume approximately 2 percent of the nation’s electrical energy and roughly half of that is consumed by the IT equipment. Berkeley Lab EETD researcher and lead author Henry Coles and co-author, HPCS consultant Yong Qin from IT, recently published a paper where they evaluate server energy use and efficiency among commercially available servers that appear to be… Read more »
HPCS at SLURM User Group Meeting

September 22, 2014

Gary M Jung posted on Sep 22, 2014 High Performance Computing Services systems analyst Jackie Scoggins will be giving a talk about how we recently migrated our scheduling environment, which manages the job scheduling for all of our clusters, cluster condo users, and institutional computing at the Lab and for the UC Berkeley Research Computing program, to the SLURM… Read more »
Confluence (Commons) upgrade planned for Sept 24

September 17, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Sep 17, 2014 Outage Details Date We are planning to upgrade our Commons wiki to Confluence 5.5.6 (from 5.4.3) the evening of Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The outage window will start at 6pm and end at 9pm. Impact In addition to bug fixes, the new version of Confluence has a more robust… Read more »
HPCS helps researchers set new Microscopy record at the ALS.

September 11, 2014

Gary M Jung posted on Sep 11, 2014 Researchers at the ALS used “soft” X-rays to image structures only five nanometers in size. This resolution is the highest ever achieved with X-ray microscopy and may have ushered in a new era for nanoscale imaging. Diffraction data is recorded by a high speed CCD camera and fed… Read more »
Announcing the availability of Pivot – a tool to find funding opportunities

August 29, 2014

Adam Stone posted on Aug 29, 2014 IT is proud to launch a 1 year pilot of COS Pivot, a tool for finding funding opportunities. The tool indexes over 20,000 opportunities and presents them in a searchable database. It can also match funding opportunities automatically based on profiles established and edited in the system. Additional… Read more »
New Phonebook Application

July 23, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 23, 2014 New version deployed on July 31 We made some changes to the phonebook after reviewing customer feedback. The screen shot below reflects the new look will surface later Thursday afternoon The Labs phonebook (directory look-up) service is undergoing some changes. It incorporates some of the more advanced search… Read more »
FUZE Video Conferencing Update

July 22, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 22, 2014 A new Windows client from Fuze is now available – go to fuze.com/download to install it. The Fuze client is installed on 46 Video Cart/Office Systems (the Mac Version) – and with the release of the latest Windows client a unified look and feel is consistent across laptop and desktop… Read more »
Testing UberConference through August 15

July 8, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 08, 2014 The IT Division is moving into a second phase of testing related to UberConference. This product offers capabilities similar to Readytalk with useful Google integration opportunities. In our prior tests, we were just using the free version. We now have 75 PRO licenses that allow you to pick your… Read more »
Doodle Scheduling Tool

July 3, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 03, 2014 Doodle premium service now available for LBL employees We have acquired a one year subscription to doodle’s premium service to help “power” calendar users find appropriate times for hard to schedule guests. Doodle is particularly useful when trying to find times that accommodate a mix of lab and… Read more »
EDUROAM available to Lab employees

June 16, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jun 16, 2014 Update: 6/26/14 Wireless access points at LBL that support eduroam include 33, 50E, 50F, 65,70, 70A, 65A, 65B, 88, 90 & 90 trailers. The current list of buildings with this support can be found at the Wireless – Upgraded page. We have begun initial testing of our EDUROAM wireless… Read more »
IT Training Opportunities

June 4, 2014

Nina Lucido posted on Jun 04, 2014 The IT Division is offering two identical Advanced Arduino workshops from 9am-12pm and 1pm-4pm on Tuesday, June 24 in Pers Hall (54-130). Registration can be found on our “Training and Awareness” webpage located here: https://commons.lbl.gov/display/itdivision/Training+and+Awareness The class will introduce advanced concepts, focusing on sensors, actuators, and programming techniques that might be used to… Read more »