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  • D-Lab Classes for April 2026

    D-Lab Classes for April 2026

    Science IT @ LBL has partnered with D-Lab to offer free, engaging workshops on the latest IT applications. Upcoming workshops include Python, R Programming, and Tidyverse. Sign up for a free class today! Read more »

  • Google Drive Released Tuesday April 24

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 »

  • Supercluster downtime scheduled, Mar 6th, Tuesday, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm

    Krishna Muriki posted on Mar 05, 2012 HPCS team has scheduled a downtime to the Lab supercluster on March 6th, Tuesday from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm to peform regular maintenance. Users will not be able to access the login nodes, cluster queues or the data on the cluster filesystems. This is a downtime for all Read more »

  • Mailstop Changes in Lab Directory

    Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 02, 2012 Background Direct (self service) update of location, phone, fax, mailstop, and personal web page was implemented last Fall.  At the time, we noted there was some work to be done to re-engineer the process involving mailstops. This work has been completed. Over the past several weeks, Facilities has Read more »

  • LabTech 2012

    Nina Lucido posted on Mar 01, 2012 LabTech – The Berkeley Lab Computing and Technology Event By and For Lab Staff   This page is about LabTech2012, if you’re looking for information about LabTech2013 coming up on October 10, visit: https://go.lbl.gov/labtech     Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11AM-6PM What is LabTech? LabTech is a free event created Read more »

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