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ICS Computing Support Announcements: Winter Quarter 2017
Virtual Computing Tools @ ICS
Cloud computing provides a cost effective way for researchers to extend computing capabilities without significantly increasing their capital expenditures.
Computing Support can project ICS services into the Google Cloud Platform.
Computing that is not used, turned off, is not typically charged but can be scaled up quickly when additional resources are needed.
Virtual box and Vagrant are available on most ICS instructional and research compute hosts. Any user with login privilege may create a virtual machine using these utilities.
This information, as well any updates and changes, is summarized at the following link:
https://swiki.ics.uci.edu/doku.php/virtual_environments:virtual_environments
Please contact ICS Compuitng Support Helpdesk with any questions regarding these services.
ICS Password Management
ICS Computing Support has updated our ICS Account Password wiki page. You will find new information about tools to change and reset passwords, campus multi factor authentication and some best practices for managing your password. Please see the following URL:
https://swiki.ics.uci.edu/doku.php/accounts:password_change_reset
Openlab Requires OpenSSH Keys from Off Campus
This is a reminder that beginning this morning instructional openlab hosts will require OpenSSH keys for clients connecting from off campus. Off campus OpenSSH clients will not longer be allowed to login using a password.
For instructions on setting up OpenSSH keys, please visit the following URL:
[[accounts:ssh_keys|https://swiki.ics.uci.edu/doku.php/accounts:ssh_keys]]
