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Accessing HelloSign: Important Update

April 28, 2025

Due to recent changes implemented by HelloSign (now part of Dropbox Sign), the service is no longer accessible through the Google App Launcher, often referred to as the “waffle” menu. Users who previously relied on this quick-access feature will need to adjust their workflow to continue using HelloSign. To access HelloSign moving forward, go directly… Read more »

Data Center Utilization Report – December 2011

January 19, 2012

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 »
IT Piloting Conference Management Tool

January 18, 2012

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 »
January 11 Google Apps Classes

January 4, 2012

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 »
Workstation Purchasing Trends

December 21, 2011

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 »
Data Center Utilization Report – November 2011

December 20, 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 »
Mail List Service

December 19, 2011

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 »
Major IT Outage Dec 2-3 – Complete.

November 29, 2011

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 »
LBNL HPC Services at SuperComputing 2011

November 25, 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 »
Lawrencium Cluster Downtime Dec 2-5

November 25, 2011

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 »
Version 2 of Directory Services Update Released

November 21, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 21, 2011 Version 2 of the Directory services program was released on November 21. When a lab employee or affiliate needs to update information in the lab directory, go to www.lbl.gov/ds – “Edit your directory entry” With the agreement of the Business Managers at their 11/4/11 meeting, we changed the… Read more »
New Look For Gmail

November 17, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 17, 2011 The New Look for Gmail has been turned on for Berkeley Lab. This is similar to the look consumer users of Gmail have had for a number of weeks. It may take awhile for this to roll out to all users. One change may confuse you: where… Read more »
Making Videoconferencing Work Better

November 15, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Nov 15, 2011 If you’ve ever used or thought about room based videoconferencing systems in the past half decade, you’ve probably gotten frustrated. These setups are expensive, somewhat proprietary despite their support for open standards, shockingly frustrating to use, and often end up as wall decoration in conference rooms where they are… Read more »