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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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Warewulf receives Intel Cluster Ready “Explorer” award
The Berkeley Lab Warewulf Cluster Toolkit development team has been honored with the ‘Explorer Award’ from the Intel(R) Cluster Ready team at Intel, which recognizes organizations who have continued to explore and implement Intel Cluster Ready (ICR) certified systems. The award was presented to Warewulf developers Greg Kurtzer, Michael Jennings, and Bernard Li of the IT… Read more »
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IT Division at Data Center Efficiency Summit 2012
Gary M Jung posted on Oct 30, 2012 HPC Services staff member Yong Qin was part of a panel, along with other Berkeley Lab scientists from the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, at the Silicon Valley Data Center Efficiency Summit 2012 last week in San Jose talking about Berkeley Lab’s recently released study to understand the feasibility of implementing Demand… Read more »
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Commons Upgrade Scheduled for Sunday, Nov 4
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Oct 30, 2012 The Plan We will be upgrading Commons to Confluence 4.2 on Sunday, 11/4, starting at 10am. The system will most likely be up within 3 hours, but a number of manual adjustments will be required post-upgrade, causing some pages to have display issues beyond that time. Commons hosts… Read more »
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Google Drive User Interface Changes
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Oct 30, 2012 Gdrive – the new UI will soon become the default Google is going to start rolling out changes related to the Google Drive User interface – here is the current schedule. From 8th November Google will begin showing a banner to all users who have opted out and… Read more »
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Advanced Graphics and Visualization Techniques with MATLAB
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Oct 03, 2012 IT is sponsoring another 2 hour Matlab seminar in the bldg 50 Auditorium on Thursday, October 11 Presenter: Saket Kharsikar, MathWorks Application Engineer Agenda 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Advanced Graphics and Visualization Techniques with MATLAB This session will focus on visualizing data, viewing images, and manipulating graphics in MATLAB.… 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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