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Secure Your Identity with 1Password
1Password is a password management solution now offered at Berkeley Lab. Weak login credentials and their exposure are a leading cause of cybersecurity incidents. Install a password manager today to help protect your identity and personal data. Read more »
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Sophos Anti-Virus Problem Impacting Berkeley Lab
Adam Stone posted on Sep 19, 2012 The lab’s standard anti-virus software, Sophos, is continually updated with the latest information about viruses. Today at 1:20pm, Sophos released an update which is causing many clients to incorrectly report they are infected with Shh/Updater-B. If you receive one of these warnings it is safe to ignore it. We… Read more »
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BOSS Makes the Biggest Chunk of the Universe Yet Available to the Public
Gary M Jung posted on Aug 09, 2012 The first data from BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey led by Berkeley Lab scientists, is now available to the public. Spectroscopic data from over 500,000 galaxies up to 7 billion light years away, more than 100,000 quasars up to 11.5 billion light years away, and many thousands… Read more »
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Data Center Utilization Report – July 2012
Nina Lucido posted on Aug 06, 2012 What was installed: Cluster Support Received NSD cluster of 21 nodes (Not yet operational) Expected power usage is 6kW Business Systems Group None What was removed: Cluster Support Group Approximately 10kW Business Systems Group None July average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE): 1.47 Average Power Consumption: 400 kW IT =… Read more »
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NetApp file server “Grouper” Down on Aug 10
Nina Lucido posted on Aug 01, 2012 The Systems, Application, and Middleware Support Group (SAMS) will perform work on the NetApp file server “Grouper” on Friday Aug 10, 2012 from 6:00pm-10:00pm. This is to replace its current storage controller with a newer model. During this storage upgrade, the services listed below will be unavailable: Commons Conferences… Read more »
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Whats New with LBL’s Google Applications
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 13, 2012 Google continually enhances the products they provide to customers. We want to bring some of these to your attention and also give everyone a heads-up on recent efforts by IT’s Google Support Team. We would also like to encourage anyone with a special interest in Google, to join… Read more »
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Greening our Datacenter Team Recognized with Director’s Achievement Award and UC Larry Sautter Award
The core team responsible for our multi-year initiative to improve the energy efficiency of our research and operational computing datacenter has been recognized with two awards in one month. The team was recognized with a Director’s Achievement Award and a Larry Sautter Award from the University of California. Congratulations to the team! The Pandas thank… Read more »
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MyBLIS Heading For Retirement
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jun 27, 2012 It’s time to say goodby to MyBLIS – the portal that is now used by around 140 customers at the lab. It is based on outdated and unsupported technology and a number of the features that made it attractive when it was introduced are no longer working. It did offer… Read more »
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Berkeley Lab Laptop Trends
Adam Stone posted on Jun 21, 2012 As you (hopefully) know, IT Division is a big proponent of the importance of researchers choosing the productivity tools they feel most comfortable with. We’ve actually fought pretty hard against some folks to try to convince them what we think is true: the benefits of standardization are meager, and… Read more »
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A New Map That’s So Much More
Adam Stone posted on Jun 20, 2012 LBNL is a pretty big place. If you’re an employee who hasn’t been around forever, you’ve probably wandered past buildings and wondered what kind of cool science goes on in there. And if you’re a member of the community, outside of tours and websites, you might just get glimpses… Read more »
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MS Excel 2010 – Training Schedule
Nina Lucido posted on Jun 06, 2012 The IT Division is offering a series of Excel training courses over the next six months for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users. In addition, we will also offer a special advanced session titled “Excel for Science” based on feedback we received from our recent LabTech event. To register… Read more »
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Matlab Seminars – Tuesday June 12
The IT Division is hosting two seminars from Mathworks on Tuesday June 12 in the Bldg 50 Auditorium. You can register with Mathworks using this link which helps us plan for the event (or just show up). 10am – Noon Session 1: Data Analysis and Visualization with MATLAB During this technical presentation, we will introduce specific examples… Read more »
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Warewulf featured in HPC Admin Magazine
Gary M Jung posted on May 23, 2012 This month’s issue of HPC Admin Magazine features the first in a 4-part series of in-depth articles on how to use the LBNL Warewulf Cluster Toolkit. Warewulf was developed here at Berkeley Lab by HPC Services Greg Kurtzer and it pioneered many of the stateless methods that other cluster toolkits use today.… Read more »
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