Winter Quarter Announcements 2018

Free, unrestrcted, self manged storage for shared data is available with the new Gsuite offering, Google Team Drive.

The drawbacks is that the space is not suitable for real time applications. It's a great place to keep documents for your research group and save archival data. We have some methods for quick and efficient transfer of data from you ICS home directgory

Look for other news at the Gsuite Blog

Whether in a 1:1 chat or a dedicated group workspace, Hangouts Chat makes it easy to collaborate with your team in an organized way. Share and discuss Docs, Sheets, and Slides all in one place.

Google Hangouts Chat should be available for ICS Gsuite by 3/5: https://get.google.com/chat/

Google has released it's updated video conferences meet

1. Video Meetings from mobile app or desktop web browser.
2. Record meetings and presentations.
3. Also allows dial in from phone.

What's new in G suite?

ICS GPU machines, acdc.ics.uci.edu, kiss.ics.uci.edu, and motorhead.ics.uci.edu support running Tensorflow. Follow the link for more information on using Tensorflow at ICS. Send mail to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu to get Tensorflow installed on your GPU server.

Students may print to the CS364 Openlab printer from their own devices on the campus wireless. Print queue information and directions for Windows 10 are available here.

UCI enjoys a Mathematica site license. Below is a list of resources for getting started with Mathematica.

• Mathematica for Students
• Mathematica Unlimited for Faculty and Staff

Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica This tutorial helps students get started with Mathematica. Students will learn how to create their first notebook, run calculations, generate visualizations, create models to explore examples from class, analyze data and more.

• Free online course with live Q&A: http://url.wolfram.com/2XHR2YSI/
• 2nd edition book available in paperback or Kindle form: http://url.wolfram.com/2DKTYKjq/
• Free on-demand training video to watch any time: http://url.wolfram.com/30kQ5HIs/

An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language This book helps students learn the Wolfram Language, the language of Mathematica, to use it for their own projects.

• Free interactive course: http://url.wolfram.com/2xWMxAAE/
• 2nd edition book available online and in paperback or Kindle form: http://url.wolfram.com/2YwIIxZG/

This message was sent out by the OIT Network Security Group on 1/19:

As you are aware the Office of Information Technology has implemented a Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management Program (VMP) that uses SecurityCenter to track and manage information security vulnerabilities on campus computers. In our next evolution of this program we will be formally putting UCI’s network disconnect policy into effect as of Monday January 22, 2018.

As announced in a Zotmail sent by OIT on 11/27/17, starting next Monday any systems identified in SecurityCenter that have a critical vulnerability that is also known to be exploitable, we will be sending out an email notification to alert responsible parties of its status as well as give a deadline that it must be addressed by. We will follow up with several reminder emails but if systems are not addressed by the deadline they will be denied access to the network until the OIT Security team receives confirmation they have been addressed. For more detailed information regarding the network disconnect policy you can refer to our page here https://security.uci.edu/security-plan/vmp.html.

Please make sure your hosts are available to OIT scanners in the IP range: 128.200.107.230-128.200.107.234

• Vagrant has been updated to version 2.01
• VirtualBox has been updated to version 5.2 on ICS instructional Linux.
• NEW Instructional courses can automate VM on our new Virtual Machine cluster. Instructional courses can automate VM on our new Virtual Machine cluster

ICS support provides undergraduate and graduate scratch space for enrolled student to use in coursework. The space is provided free of charge and without user quota limits.

Please see the following links for more information:

• Undergraduate Scratch Space
• Graduate Scratch Space

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:

• https://swiki.ics.uci.edu/doku.php/accounts:ssh_keys

Computing Support would like to bring your attention to a couple of current storage deals.

ICS Computing Support has over 100TB of disk available on our AMS-2500. That space is being offerered to researchers under the following terms:

• Cost is $73 per Terabyte per year for reserved space.
• Proceeds cover the cost of hardware maintenance.
• Snapshots available
• Tape archival and long term backup not available.
• Cost to be pro-rated for 2017.

Network Appliance is running some great year end deals with costs that work out to be as low as $83 per usable Terabyte per year when you purchase an entire shelf of disks up front for $35,985.14.

* Cost is all up front * Purchase covers hardware with a maintenance co termed with existing Netapp equipment. * Snapshots available. * Tape archival and long term backups available. * Subject to hardware maintentance after the initial warranty expires.

This chart shows how much you could spend on google object storage (TB/year) alongside the pair of ICS data center offereings.