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 ===== Summer Quarter 2019 Announcements =====
+==== Jupyterhub @ ICS  ====
+Jupyterhub offers Jupyter Notebooks, shell, VSCode, Xdesktop and Rstudio through your web browser.
+Currently available for ICS instruction:  [[https://hub.ics.uci.edu|ICS Jupyterhub Portal]]
+Follow the project [[virtual_environments:jupyterhub|here]].
+==== Campus Research Storage Pool ====
+UCI Research Cyberinfrastucture Center has made **additional storage** available to Campus researchers:
+  * [[https://rcic.uci.edu/crsp/index.html|Campus Research Storage Pool]]
+This storage may be **mounted on any ICS managed Linux hosts** using [[accounts:fuse-sshfs|SSHFS]]:
+  * [[https://rcic.uci.edu/crsp/sshfs.html|Mounting CRSP via SSHFS]]
+====VMWare Academic Program====
+ICS has signed up the VMWare Academic Program.  Please read the details of the program at https://labs.vmware.com/academic/academic-software.  The primary use of the licenses are for teaching and research.  Please read more detailed valid use of the software at https://labs.vmware.com/academic/licensing-overview.  In particular, the software can be used for non-commercial research projects.
+Faculty and students are able to download VMWare software from https://elms.ics.uci.edu.
 ====New Openlab Instructional Nodes====
-UCI and ICS received the donation of several racks of high density computing during the spring 2019 term.  Some of that equipment has already been deployed as part of the [[https://swiki.ics.uci.edu/doku.php/virtual_environments:inst|virtual machine instructional cluster (centaurus)]].   We are working on deploying the rest to further expand the centaurus cluster as well as replace equipment in the openlab instructional clusters for shell service and as SGE compute nodes.
+UCI and ICS received the donation of several racks of high density computing during the spring 2019 term.  The equipment was used added to the [[hardware:cluster:openlab|Openlab Instruction Cluster]].
-====Openlab:Archer, Openlab:Andromeda Planned Retirement====
+=== Circinus Cluster ===
-**Date**:  Summer Term 2019 (exact date TBD)
+^Description ^Information |
+|Cluster|Circinus Cluster|
+|Count | 48 |
+|Model | HP Proliant SL390 G7 |
+|Processor | 2 x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 Ghz |
+|RAM | 96 GB |
+|HDD | Varies |
+|RAID |No |
+|Redundant Power |Yes|
-**Reason**:
-  * To make space and power available for newer openlab instructional nodes
+Additional equipment has  been deployed as part of the [[https://swiki.ics.uci.edu/doku.php/virtual_environments:inst|virtual machine instructional cluster (centaurus)]] suppirting the [[virtual_environments:jupyterhub| ICS Jupyterhub]].
-  * Unsupported hardware, newer kernels and related packages do not run.
-  * A veritable cornucopia of security concerns related to running old packages.
-**Affects**:  All equipment in openlab:archer and openlab:andromeda clusters will be powered down and permanently removed this summer.  New equipment will be added to the openlab cluster for shell service and as SGE compute nodes.
-====Duo Maintenance Update====
+====Duo MFA @ UCI====
-Changes will be made to duo process running on emp.ics.uci.edu.   Beginning in early June, in order to accommodate Duo hardware tokens,  users that are enrolled in Duo will be presented with the following menu when logging in:
+DUO multifactor authentication is required for all campus' faculty, staff, and paid students beginning fall quarter in order to prevent unauthorized acces fo institution resources.
+[[https://www.oit.uci.edu/news/required-multifactor-authentication-account-protection/|Campus Announcement]]
+===Duo MFA on emp.ics.uci.edu===
+Beginning in early June, in order to accommodate Duo hardware tokens,  users that are enrolled in Duo will be presented with the following menu when logging in:
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   * Users that use the Duo app should choose option 1 to continue to have Duo push to their phone.
   * Users that will use a hardware token or phone app //passcode// can simply enter it now.
+Users may force the old behavior, an autopush to their phone or tablet app, by setting and exporting the following variable:
+<code>
+DUO_PASSCODE=push
+</code>
 **Note about ssh-keys**:  All users logging into emp.ics.uci.edu will receive this prompt regardless of whether or not they are using [[accounts:ssh_keys|ssh-keys]].   At this time we only expect to make this change on emp.ics.uci.edu and multi factor authentication prompts will not appear on other hosts for users using ssh-keys.
+=== SFTP Access ===
+Please note that due to new [[accounts:security:twofactorauthentication:duo|MFA]] requirements, some users may need to change they way they connect to their files using [[services:sftp|sftp or scp]].
+The ICS SFTP server is **[[sftp://sftp.ics.uci.edu|sftp://sftp.ics.uci.edu]]**.   The campus VPN is required in order to access the sftp server from off campus.