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FAQ - Travel and the UMBC VPN

Helping Secure Your Communications When Off-Campus

If I am a student, can I log in from my country of travel? Yes, as long as you have a valid UMBC account and the country in question allows internet traffic to and from the United States Can I...

Posted: August 17, 2021, 6:10 PM

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