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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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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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Cloud Bursting for Particle Tracking at IPAC 2012
Gary M Jung posted on May 23, 2012 Advanced Light Source (ALS) physicists Changchun Sun and Hiroshi Nishimura along with HPC Services staff Kai Song, Krishna Muriki, Susan James, Yong Qin, Bernard Li, and Gary Jung recently explored several methods to use Amazon’s VPC service to transparently extend the ALS compute cluster, located here at Berkeley… Read more »
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Tools for Conference and Meeting Planners
Adam Stone posted on May 22, 2012 Scientific conferences, reviews, and meetings are a critical part of our work at Berkeley Lab. IT offers a number of tools to help you with the lifecycle of conference planning. Conference and Meeting Websites Google SitesQuickly make sites for meetings and conferences and share them with the world. LBNL… Read more »
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GQueues – New Look and Functionality
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 14, 2012 The GQueues product continues to improve. If you need a task manager built into our Google Apps Suite of tools, go to the “More” link and click on GQueues. New Look (re-posted from a company announcement) In case you haven’t noticed….GQueues got a facelift this past weekend! The… Read more »
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Interruption of Telephone Service on May 15
Nina Lucido posted on May 09, 2012 There will be a brief interruption of telephone service for both incoming and outgoing calls including all offsite locations (Potter, JBEI, Leap Frog, and OSF). The AT&T work is scheduled on Tuesday, May 15th 2012 due to telephone network upgrades. Work will begin at 5:30 p.m. and may last… Read more »
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The Software Site has Apps for your iOS Device
Adam Stone posted on May 01, 2012 Software.lbl.gov, LBNL’s software distribution site, now sells popular iOS applications. You can use your Laboratory ProjectID to purchase work-related applications to your device. To find applications, visit http://software.lbl.gov, click Purchase Software, scroll down to iOS App Store, then select your application. At launch, the store sells licenses for: Papers Pages… Read more »
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Google Drive Released Tuesday April 24
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 24, 2012 Google just announced in their Official Enterprise Blog today that they are releasing Google Drive to consumer and Rapid Release Google Apps domains. Berkeley Lab is on Rapid Release. What is Google Drive? With Google Drive, your users can securely upload any file or folder to the web and access… Read more »
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Google Sites – Survey Results
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 17, 2012 A quick survey of Google sites users turned up some interesting results. (survey done with Google Docs>Forms tool) Collaborative Team sites was the category chosen most often. We are speculating that conferences and workshops will be a use case that will increase in the future. We think it… Read more »
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Data Center Utilization Report – March 2012
Nina Lucido posted on Apr 13, 2012 What was installed: Cluster Support: Approximately 18.2kW Business Systems: No new systems What was removed: Cluster Support: Approximately 2kW Business Systems: None March average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE): 1.46 Average Power Consumption: 410kW IT 1kw Lighting 23.0kW Building and IT Losses 165kW Cooling Power – unknown due to sensor… Read more »
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