===== 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.  The equipment was used added to the [[hardware:cluster:openlab|Openlab Instruction Cluster]].   

=== Circinus Cluster ===

^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|


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]].  


====Duo MFA @ UCI====

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:
<code>
Duo two-factor login for ____

Enter a passcode or select one of the following options:

 1. Duo Push to XXX-XXX-4267
 2. Duo Push to Android

Passcode or option (1-2): 
</code>

  * 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.