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  • New requirement on Technology Use During Foreign Travel

    New requirement on Technology Use During Foreign Travel

    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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • Version 2 of Directory Services Update Released

    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

    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

    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 »

  • New Apple Rep Visits Lab

    Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 15, 2011 Russ Pond is the new DOE (and Berkeley Lab) Account Manager for the Government Enterprise Division at Apple. He and Ron Ustich (continuing on as our primary systems engineer contact) attended the Nov 14 Mac User Group Meeting and then visited staff in the IT Division. Future presentations… Read more »

  • Supercomputing as a Service

    Nina Lucido posted on Nov 11, 2011 LBL CIO Rosio Alvarez and HPC Services Manager Gary Jung present their experiences using cloud services for HPC at Information Week’s GovCloud 2011 conference in Washington DC.  More. Read more »

  • HPC For Advanced Materials

    Nina Lucido posted on Nov 11, 2011 Researchers from Berkeley Lab and MIT have teamed up to develop a new tool, as part of the Materials Project, led by LBL PI Kristen Persson to speed up the development for new materials. The project incorporates the use of supercomputing resources including Lawrencium to characterize the properties of inorganic compounds.  More. Read more »

  • Voice Mail Unavailable Nov 12 from 10am-11am

    Nina Lucido posted on Nov 10, 2011 The Lab’s voice mail system will be unavailable from 10 a.m. until approximately 11 a.m. on Saturday (November 12) for system maintenance and updates.  During this time, voice mail messages will be unavailable and callers will be unable to leave messages.  For more information, contact Telephone Services (x7997). Read more »

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