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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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New Video Conferencing Services and Improvements
Adam Stone posted on Jan 30, 2012 2012 – The Year of Videoconferencing OK, maybe too grandiose, but between technology/usability improvements, new products, travel budget pressures, and sustainability goals, things seem like they’re at a real turning point with videoconferencing. IT is excited to announce four new services around videoconferencing (with three products you can try… Read more »
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Calculating What’s in the Universe
Nina Lucido posted on Jan 27, 2012 Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)… Read more »
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GQueues – added to LBL Google Apps
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 24, 2012 On January 20, we added a Google Marketplace application called GQueues to the portfolio of applications we are offering LBL Google users. We have a one year subscription for the Lab – enough time to find out if LBL can make effective use of this tool. GQueues provides… Read more »
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Data Center Utilization Report – December 2011
Nina Lucido posted on Jan 19, 2012 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: No new equipment Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: No new equipment removed Business Systems group removed the following: Several servers previously moved to VM servers resulted in… Read more »
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IT Piloting Conference Management Tool
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 18, 2012 We have recently created a “pilot” service for conference management using Indico, a software tool created at CERN and used extensively for planning and managing large conferences. It continues to be actively maintained and LBL has the latest release. We intent to make this available during FY12 –… Read more »
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January 11 Google Apps Classes
Adam Stone posted on Jan 04, 2012 IT Division is currently offering introductory courses, taught by a Learn iT instructor, on Gmail/Google Calendar and Google Docs. We still have room available for our Wednesday, January 11 classes. Other upcoming classes include MS Access, and MS Office 2010. To take advantage of these and other classes,register at: https://hris.lbl.gov/self_service/training/ (under… Read more »
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Workstation Purchasing Trends
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 21, 2011 With the Help of Property Management and Procurement, we were able to come up with statistics on recent computer workstation purchase trends (as compared to the total inventory as recorded in the Property System). We also added in recent estimates of lab issued smartphones Workstation Trends Device Total… Read more »
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Data Center Utilization Report – November 2011
Nina Lucido posted on Dec 20, 2011 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: 1 new storage node added Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: No Systems Business Systems group removed the following: No systems November average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE):… Read more »
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Mail List Service
Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 19, 2011 Strategic Direction (as of December 2011). At the present time, the IT Division manages three different mail list services: smartlists, majordomo, and sympa (open source mail list software). We are consolidating these three into an updated version of sympa (which was put into production in the fall of… Read more »
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Major IT Outage Dec 2-3 – Complete.
Adam Stone posted on Nov 29, 2011 As of 10AM Sunday Dec 4, all applications and infrastructure are back in operation, except for the HPC Services scheduled to return to operation on Monday. Older Information: Virtually all IT services including business systems, windows home directories, and scientific clusters will be offline beginning this Friday evening in… Read more »
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LBNL HPC Services at SuperComputing 2011
Gary M Jung posted on Nov 25, 2011 LBNL cluster architect Greg Kurtzer of the IT Division’s HPC Services Group hosted a very well-attended discussion in the LBNL Booth at SuperComputing 2011 to highlight the new features in the Warewulf Cluster Toolkit 3.1 release. Warewulf3 has been redesigned from the ground up and the new version takes a comprehensive approach… Read more »
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Lawrencium Cluster Downtime Dec 2-5
Gary M Jung posted on Nov 25, 2011 The next Lawrencium downtime is scheduled for the afternoon of Dec 2, 2011. LBNL Facilities division has scheduled a power outage to 50B Bldg on the weekend of Dec 3rd 2011, to perform electrical work. In preparation for this power outage, we will have to shutdown all cluster… Read more »
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