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Fake Message from Department Chair

A Lot Of The Fakes Are Obvious, Or Should Be

Impersonation Phishing Alert: Department head impersonator Recently,  DOIT has received notifications of several phishing emails. These messages impersonated the chairs of multiple departments....

Posted: August 17, 2021, 5:36 PM

CDO Now Available Across taki

Operations geared toward analysis of geophysical data

Hi All, This is just an update regarding a new set of software packages now available on the taki cluster environment, CDO.  From the requestor and main CDO site...

Posted: August 17, 2021, 1:08 PM

13 Tips to Get Your Blackboard Course Ready

Checklist to optimize your course before the semester starts

Prepare your Blackboard course shell for the new semester with our updated baker’s dozen checklist. 1. Review new tools & features in Blackboard. Our Blackboard site receives updates and...

Posted: August 17, 2021, 12:02 PM

Intel Adopts LLVM

Intel Compilers move to use LLVM open source infrastructure

I just saw this update regarding the Intel compilers, thought I would share it with our HPC community. This will not affect the compilers we currently have on Taki. From the article:...

Posted: August 12, 2021, 2:07 PM

Quarterly patching downtimes - 8/7 & 8/13

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Saturday, August 7th and Friday, August 13th.  While many of the...

Posted: August 4, 2021, 10:23 AM

taki Downtime Completed

To all taki users, Our work bringing the taki cluster environment up-to-date has concluded. Please begin normal use of the cluster environment. Please let us know if you have any questions...

Posted: August 3, 2021, 9:47 PM

Submit New Computer Lab Software Requests by August 13th!

The deadline for requesting software to be included in our physical labs, virtual labs, and classrooms has been extended to August 13th. Software requests must be entered by this deadline to...

Posted: August 2, 2021, 4:53 PM

VoiceThread / Blackboard Tool Connection Updated

VoiceThread update changes how VoiceThread is added to Bb

Do you use VoiceThread assignments or links in Blackboard? At the end of July, VoiceThread went through an LTI upgrade to improve functionality between VoiceThread and Blackboard. The new...

Posted: August 2, 2021, 3:08 PM

Enhanced whiteboard tools coming to Collaborate in August

Draw freehand customize text & retain session annotations

A whiteboard is an important pedagogical tool to support handwritten expression and annotation, especially in a virtual classroom. Over the last year, Blackboard has been redesigning the...

Posted: August 2, 2021, 10:30 AM

taki Downtime August 3, 5p-9p

To all taki users, On Tuesday August 3, 2021 the taki cluster environment will be down and inaccessible from 5pm - 9pm EDT. This downtime is to apply some patches whose installation may be...

Posted: July 29, 2021, 9:53 AM