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--- announce:winter-2020 [2020/01/02 15:24]
luciad [Singularity Containers]
+++ announce:winter-2020 [2020/01/23 12:50] (current)
Hans [UCI Library Overleaf Licensing]
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 ====== Winter 2020 Announcements ======
+====UCI Library Overleaf Licensing====
+The UCI Library has licensed Overleaf Professional on behalf of the campus:
+<code>
+The UCI Libraries has licensed some new tools to promote professional writing and collaboration.
+The latest tool is Overleaf Professional, open to all students, faculty and staff who would like
++o use a collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their projects.  Overleaf Professional accounts
+provide real-time track changes, unlimited collaborators and full document history.  Designed to
+make the process of writing, editing, and producing your research papers and project reports
+much quicker for both author and collaborators, Overleaf can also be liked to other services
+such as bibliographer management software tools to best fit into your workflow.
+</code>
+[[https://guides.lib.uci.edu/c.php?g=333727&p=7176962|Read more]]
+====UCI Network Disconnect Policy Update====
+Effective this year, all campus users will have 3 weeks to remediate vulnerabilities when their systems are added to OIT Security’s Network Disconnection Program (NDP). This is a change from the previous remediation time frame of 4 weeks or 2 weeks depending on whether your system was listed as an OIT asset.
+The unified 3 week remediation period will allow the Vulnerability Management Team to streamline the NDP process and look for more automation opportunities in the future. Please email security-vmp@uci.edu if you have any questions or concerns about this change.
+Please visit this URL for more information: https://security.uci.edu/security-plan/vmp.html
+====Devops/SysAdmin Student Recruitment====
+**Recruitement has resumed, send mail to hans@ics.uci.edu if you have problems.**
+ ICS Computing Support is looking for a new undergraduate student system administrator and/or devops engineer.   This is a great opportunity to get real world experience working as part of a team managing a large computing infrastructure.  Please visit the following URL for a full description and to apply:
+[[https://uci.joinhandshake.com/jobs/3379249]]
 ==== Jupyterlab @ ICS  and Jupyter Notebooks for Instruction  ====
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 ====Slurm to Replace SGE====
-[[services:slurm|Slurm]] is on schedule to replace SGE for distributed computing jobs.  The Slurm cluster is up and running now.
+[[services:slurm|Slurm]] will be replacing SGE for distributed computing.  The Slurm cluster is up and running now.
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-SLURM, unlike SGE, is actively supported and offers improved GPU support, finer tuning of queues, and has already been adopted by the [[https://rcic.uci.edu/hpc3/index.html|UCI HPC3]].
+SLURM, unlike SGE, is actively supported and offers improved GPU support, fine tuning of queues, and has already been adopted by the [[https://rcic.uci.edu/hpc3/index.html|UCI HPC3]].
-Visit our internal webpage for more information on how to use Slurm at ICS.   Send email to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu with questions and suggestions or if you are interested in converting your cluster from SGE to SLURM.
+Send email to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu if you would like to start using SLURM today.
+Visit our internal webpage for more information on how to use Slurm at ICS.
 ====Singularity Containers====
-[[https://singularity.lbl.gov/|Singularity]] is a program for running containers on ICS hosts available to any user with an [[accounts:password_change_reset|ICS shell account]].
+[[https://singularity.lbl.gov/|Singularity]] allows users with an [[accounts:password_change_reset|ICS shell account]] to run any singularity and most docker containers on ICS hosts.
 Singularity is available on all ICS-managed CentOS hosts for users to run.   Use the command `module load singularity` to add the latest available version to your environment.
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 The  OIT Windows Services Group (WSG) made a change in November to Office 365 that increased the storage limit of OneDrive from 1 TB/user to 5 TB/user.    [[hardware:storage:onedrivefilesystem|Click here for more info
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+==== Maintenance Notifications ====
+Please check [[projects:maint-winter-2020|ICS Maintenance Notifications]]