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--- announce:summer-2019 [2019/06/04 17:09]
Hans [Duo Maintenance Update]
+++ announce:summer-2019 [2019/10/16 11:09] (current)
Hans [Duo MFA @ UCI]
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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.
+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.
-Users may force the old behavior, an autopush to their phone or tablet ap, by setting and exporting the following variable:
+[[https://www.oit.uci.edu/news/required-multifactor-authentication-account-protection/|Campus Announcement]]
-<code>
-DUO_PASSCODE=push
+===Duo MFA on emp.ics.uci.edu===
-<code>
 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.