Fall Quarter 2016 Announcements

Instructors, please urge your TAs to enforce the “NO FOOD or DRINKS” rule in the Instructional Labs. The care for the labs is everyone's responsibility.

There are brand new chairs and desks in the first floor labs. The carpets were replaced, and the walls were painted last summer. Please make sure that your TAs and especially your students understand that we are all caretakers of this space. How we leave these labs to the next crop of students reflects on all of us. Everyone is encouraged to contact their TA, the lab attendant in CS 364 at x47553, or Computing Support at x44222 to report lab rule violations.

• Added 40 more 8-core HP Proliant 360 G5's with 32GB RAM
• Upgraded to CentOS 7 for Fall quarter
• Consolidated openlab.q with no time limits

More information on the Openlab Cluster

More information on using Son of Grid Engine Queueing System (SGE)

• Undergraduate Instructional Scratch Space
• Graduate Instructional Scratch Space

The following packages have been installed or updated in the ICS package library.

• R 3.2.5
• R 3.3.1
• altera modelsim/15.1
• boost 1.61
• gcc 5.4.0
• gcc 5.2.0
• java 1.8.0_91
• java 1.8.0_101
• java 1.8.0_102
• mathematica 10.4.1
• mathematica 11.0.0
• matlab
• mysql 5.7.15
• python 3.3.3
• python 3.3.5
• python 2.7.12
• python 3.5.2
• sas 9.4
• zlib 1.2.8
• zlib 1.2.5
• pcre 8.39
• bzip2 1.0.6
• xz 5.2.2
• curl 7.49.1

Please visit the Modules swiki page for more information about adding these to your environment.

The UC has entered into a site-wide agreement with Zoom for video, web and audio conferencing. Please send email to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu if you would like more information about obtaining a license for the product.

Zoom Education is a video, audio and web conferencing service accessible by the internet (computers, tablets, smartphones) and telephone. Each conference session has one or more hosts and participants. Only hosts need have Zoom accounts.

More information about the UC-wide agreement here

ICS Computing Support can help clarify solutions, identify resources that are already available to you, and put you in touch with vendors that offer reduced pricing on some software and hardware, so please check with us before making technology purchases.

On qualifying hardware, ICS Computing Support can run the following operating systems with varying service levels.

Please see our supported operating systems swiki page for full descriptions.

ICS Computing Support has a Gitlab website available for ICS researchers and students. Gitlab is a web front-end to your Git repositories and is remarkably similar to the popular Github.

• Users can login using their ICS username and password
• Accounts may be requested for non-ICS users
• Users may start projects and add other ICS users to them as needed

For more information on Gitlab, please visit https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/README.md

ICS Computing Support offers several virtual computing environments. Please see Virtual Environments.

ICS environments can be extended to the cloud. ICS Computing Support can help you design, setup and, in some cases, manage your cloud cluster.

• Google Cloud Engine @ ICS
• Amazon Web Services @ UCI

Many public and research hosts are set up to run the following virtual environments.

• Oracle Virtual Box
• Vagrant
• Docker

ICS has a 1600-square-foot data center and manages 571 pieces of equipment in the data center, including 479 bare metal servers. More statistics are available here.

ICS researchers may place supported hardware in the ICS data center free of recurring charges. Researchers are expected to pay for any infrastructure costs associated with their equipment and are occasionally asked to help with general infrastructure costs for running the data center.

UC Irvine is participating in the InCommon Certificate program, which allows delegated administrators in campus departments to issue and renew digital certificates used for such purposes as securing web servers run on behalf of their departments. Through the InCommon Certificate program, UC Irvine pays a site fee (sponsored by OIT) and is then entitled to issue unlimited digital certificates through Comodo, a well-established commercial Certificate Authority.

More information about this program is available at the InCommon site.

Contacthelpdesk@ics.uci.edu for more information.

If you need to take attendance for classes or meetings, you can use our web-based tool which is available at https://checkin.ics.uci.edu.

Checking in can be done via cell phone or laptop. For more information, visit https://checkin.ics.uci.edu/index.php?r=site/about

Annually, ICS purchases licenses for Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, and Adobe Acrobat. These can be installed on systems purchased with UCI funds. They require periodic connectivity to the UCI network to keep the license activated. Contact helpdesk@ics.uci.edu for more information.