IT News

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 »

New Apple Rep Visits Lab

November 15, 2011

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

November 11, 2011

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

November 11, 2011

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

November 10, 2011

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 »
Data Center Utilization Report – October 2011

November 9, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Nov 09, 2011 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: 17 new nodes added to Lawrencium Condo (LR2) 1 node added to ESD cluster Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: jbei-1 cluster was turned off but remains… Read more »
Google+ Added to LBL Google Apps

November 3, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 03, 2011 Google+ was released to Enterprise Customers and we added it to the LBL domain on October 27. Feature highlights Google+ Profiles: Create a profile with information about yourself. For example, you can add information about your projects or expertise and share it only with other employees. You can choose… Read more »
Conference Rooms That Work – Continued

October 27, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Oct 27, 2011 We’ve now almost completed the retrofit of the three B50 conference rooms. All three have identical controllers and interfaces to make it easy for staff to move between the rooms. All three rooms have bright, current generation projectors with both HDMI and VGA connectors – and support for virtually… Read more »
Business Systems Back Online

October 21, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Oct 21, 2011 As of 11pm on on October 20, all production business systems are back online from the storage systems failure earlier in the day. Initial testing of the business applications has been completed and further testing as well as consultation with the functional owners will occur Oct 21 AM. Again,… Read more »
New Presentation Editor for Google Docs

October 20, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Oct 20, 2011 For customers on Google’s Rapid Release Schedule (which includes Berkeley Lab), a new Presentation Editor within the Google Docs suite of tools is being deployed. Google has added many of your most requested features, including: Transitions to move between slides with simple fades or spicier 3D effects Animations… Read more »
eLinks Q&A in Reading Lounge

October 17, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Oct 17, 2011 Margery Tibbits and Lena Zentall of the California Digital Library, will be on site to demo and answer questions about eLinks, from 3:30 to 4:30PM on October 24th in the Reading Lounge 54-002. eLinks let you link to full electronic text articles in journals subscribed to by the LBL… Read more »
Use of Carbonite Continues to Grow!

October 7, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Oct 07, 2011 The IT Division introduced Carbonite backup service for PC and Mac computers in January 2011. Carbonite is reliable, cost effective and easy-to-use. Since introduction, we have over 500 customers. Carbonite is easy to install and runs unobtrusively in the background. It securely encrypts data for protection. More importantly, restoring… Read more »
Data Center Utilization Report – September 2011

October 6, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Oct 06, 2011 What was installed: Cluster support group added the following: No new systems Business Systems group added the following: No new systems What was removed: Cluster support group removed the following: Retired jbei-1 cluster Business Systems group removed the following: No systems September average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE): 1.51 Average… Read more »