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IT Training for May 2025

April 24, 2025

ScienceIT at Berkeley Lab has partnered with D-Lab to offer our workshops to you. Following is a list of workshops on Python, R Programming, and Git Fundamentals. To register for the workshops listed below, click on the link below to read the description, and then click the link to register via the partner portal for your… Read more »

www outage Wed January 23

January 15, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Jan 15, 2013 There will be a 30 minute outage of www.lbl.gov between 6pm and 8pm on Wed January 23. A small number of other services are also impacted and customers of those services have been notified. Other websites, network connectivity, email, and all other services are not impacted by this… Read more »
Lawrencium LR3 Cluster Now Available

January 15, 2013

Gary M Jung posted on Jan 15, 2013 We are glad to announce the availability of third generation (Lr3) nodes in the Lawrencium cluster which is the Lab’s institutional scientific computational system available for LBNL PI use. We have recently added 108 new compute nodes each equipped with dual-socket eight-core Intel SandyBridge 2.6Ghz processors (16 cores/node) and 64GB of 1600Mhz memory. They are connected… Read more »
Agile Project Mgt Course January 22

January 14, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Jan 14, 2013 IT is pleased to present a one day course on Agile Project Management for the Lab Community. Information from the instructor is below. Please register for the course here. There is no charge to attend. For just any project these days, uncertainty is certain. The customer will change their mind,… Read more »
IT Service Changes Due to Building 46 Relocations

January 7, 2013

Adam Stone posted on Jan 07, 2013 Operations Customers: As you may know, occupants of building 46 are being relocated due to the slide above McMillan road. Workstation Support (MPSG) and the IT Helpdesk were both located in Building 46. We wanted to alert you to possible interruptions to service as a result of… Read more »
IT Maintenance Outage 12-27-12

December 12, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Dec 12, 2012 IT Maintenance 12-27-12 Overview As part of electrical upgrades to support the next generation of high speed networking, there will be short disruptions to LBL’s internet and local network connectivity on Dec 27th from 6:30AM to 1:30pm. During these outages, all services which rely on LBL networks will be… Read more »
LBNL HPC Services wins the FX10 Championship at SC12

December 5, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on Dec 05, 2012 Berkeley Lab’s HPC Services consultant Yong Qin won the FX10 Championship hosted by Kyushu University at SC12 last month. The FX10 championship is a competition for performance efficiency on your own code on 12 compute nodes of Fujitsu PRIMEHPC FX10, a commercial version of the K-computer (#3 of the… Read more »
HPC Services NHC presentation at SC12

November 13, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on Nov 13, 2012 HPC Services staff Jackie Scoggins and Michael Jennings gave a well-attended presentation on Node Health Check (NHC) software today at the Adaptive Computing booth at SC12. NHC, an open source project developed by Jennings, works in conjunction with Adaptive Computing’s Moab job scheduler and their open source Torque resource manager… Read more »
Warewulf receives Intel Cluster Ready “Explorer” award

November 13, 2012

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 »
IT Division at Data Center Efficiency Summit 2012

October 30, 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 »
Commons Upgrade Scheduled for Sunday, Nov 4

October 30, 2012

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 »
Google Drive User Interface Changes

October 30, 2012

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 »
Advanced Graphics and Visualization Techniques with MATLAB

October 3, 2012

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 »