✎ Winter 2020 Announcements [Support Wiki]

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====== Winter 2020 Announcements ======


==== Jupyterlab @ ICS  and Jupyter Notebooks for Instruction  ====

ICS Computing Support is Excited to Announce [[virtual_environments:jupyterhub|Jupyterub@ICS]]



[[https://hub.ics.uci.edu|{{:virtual_environments:jupyter.jpg?400|}}]]

In addition to Jupyterlab notebooks, the [[https://hub.ics.uci.edu|ICS hub]] turns any web browser into a **Linux Terminal** AND offers several web-based apps, including a console, **Rstudio**, **Xdesktop**, and **VSCode**.

[[https://hub.ics.uci.edu|Connect to the ICS Jupyterhub Portal]]

[[virtual_environments:jupyterhub|Follow the project here]]

====Slurm to Replace SGE====

[[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, fine tuning of queues, and has already been adopted by the [[https://rcic.uci.edu/hpc3/index.html|UCI HPC3]].

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]].

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.

For more information and a quick start from running docker containers, follow this link to [[virtual_environments:singularity|Singularity @ ICS]].


====AWS Eligible Discount Program====

UC System-wide Procurement Services has negotiated an additional pricing discount of 11% to the UC community.  You can take advantage of this discount by placing your campus AWS account(s) under the Eligible Discount Program (EDP) master account administered by the Office of Information Technology (OIT).  By joining the master account, your AWS bills will roll up to OIT.  OIT will pay the consolidated AWS bill monthly and cost recover to the KFS account you provide.

[[virtual_environments:aws#oit_aws_eligible_discount_program|More information Here 
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====Office 365 OneDrive - Storage Limit Increase to 5 TB====

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]]