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New requirement on Technology Use During Foreign Travel

June 24, 2025

In response to increasing cybersecurity and research security threats, Berkeley Lab has updated its Requirements on Technology Use During Foreign Travel to better protect government systems, Lab data, and employees during international trips. These threats, which include the tracking or seizure of government-issued devices, mirror a wider trend seen across the national lab system and… Read more »

GQueues – New Look and Functionality

May 14, 2012

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 »
Interruption of Telephone Service on May 15

May 9, 2012

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 »
The Software Site has Apps for your iOS Device

May 1, 2012

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 »
Google Drive Released Tuesday April 24

April 24, 2012

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 »
Google Sites – Survey Results

April 17, 2012

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 »
Data Center Utilization Report – March 2012

April 13, 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 »
HPC Services at MoabCon 2012

April 10, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on Apr 10, 2012 HPC Services senior engineer Michael Jennings will be talking about the new features of the Warewulf 3 cluster toolkit and about a new cluster Node Health Check program that he developed at this week’s Moabcon 2012 conference in Promo, Utah this week. Read more »
Clocking an Accelerating Universe

March 30, 2012

Gary M Jung posted on Mar 30, 2012 Using data collected by the Sloan Telescope located at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico and processed by the Riemann Linux cluster operated by Berkeley Lab’s HPC Services Group, scientists have announced the most accurate measurement to date of the structure of the universe at the time, five… Read more »
Changes Planned for Identity Management Services

March 30, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 30, 2012 Significant changes to our Identity Management Services are underway. LDAP Directory Services One Time Password (OTP) Services Increase in use of our Single Sign-on and Federated Authentication Service The first two are targeted for initial deployment the first week of May. In the case of the OTP service,… Read more »
Version Control System – Now Available

March 20, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 20, 2012 IT recently concluded efforts to provide Bitbucket, a distributed version control system for software developers, to lab users. We are in the early stages of rollout and are looking for some early adopters. Bitbucket supports both Git and Mercurial, works on Windows, Mac, or Linux systems and includes… Read more »
Archives and Records Class on April 10

March 15, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Mar 15, 2012 Are you running out of space in your office, moving to a new office, or tasked with processing the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? Learn more about files that need to be kept, which can be archived, which can be disposed of, and DOE and Lab compliance… Read more »
Whats New in Matlab

March 6, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 06, 2012 R2012a Release Highlights for the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families For those of you are Matlab users, a 30 minute video concerning the latest improvements can be found here For a short intro to a variety of products impacted by this release, go here. Read more »