====== Fall 2019 Announcements ======


==== Jupyterlab @ ICS  and Jupyter Notebooks for Instruction  ====

ICS Computing Support is Excited to Announce [[virtual_environments:jupyterhub|Jupyterub@ICS]]



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In addition to Jupyterlab notebooks, the [[https://hub.ics.uci.edu|ICS hub]] turns any web browser into a **Linux Terminal** AND offers several web based apps including an console, **Rstudio**, **Xdesktop**, and **VSCode**.

[[https://hub.ics.uci.edu|Connect to the ICS Jupyterhub Portal]]

[[virtual_environments:jupyterhub|Follow the project here]]



==== Lastpass Enterprise ====

Campus is offering free access to [[https://uci.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0011503|Lastpass Enterprise]] 

See our [[accounts:password_change_reset|ICS Account]] page for recommendations about managing your ICS account passwords.   

====Slurm to Replace SGE====

[[services:slurm|Slurm]] is on schedule to replace SGE for distributed computing jobs.  The Slurm cluster is up and running now.

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SLURM, unlike SGE, is activevly supported offers improved GPU support, finer tuning of queues, and has already been adopted by the [[https://rcic.uci.edu/hpc3/index.html|UCI HPC3]].

Visit our internal webpage for more information on how to use Slurm at ICS.   Send email to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu with questions and suggestions, or if you are interested in converting your cluster from SGE to SLURM.

====Singularity Containers====

[[https://singularity.lbl.gov/|Singularity]] is a program available to any user with an [[accounts:password_change_reset|ICS shell account]] for running containers on ICS hosts.

Singularity is available on all ICS Managed CentOS hosts for any user to run.   Use the command `module load singularity` to add the latest available version to your environment.

For more information and a quick start from running docker containers, follow this link to [[virtual_environments:singularity|Singularity @ ICS]].