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HPCF Back Online

Hi Everyone, After the scheduled power system maintenance, the HPCF is back online. This includes all taki components as well as affiliated research storage. Please submit an RT ticket if...

Posted: September 29, 2020, 8:08 PM

Get Ready for Winter and Spring Semesters with Labster!

Attend Live Demos for Faculty of the Virtual Lab Platform

As a reminder, the USM OnTrack initiative is covering the costs of using Labster this year as part of their commitment to supporting faculty. There is no cost to UMBC or to students to use...

Posted: September 29, 2020, 7:31 PM

Scheduled Power Outage Affecting HPCF

Hi Everyone, The user nodes (taki-usr1 & taki-usr2) are now safely shut-down in preparation for the scheduled power outage in the data center that houses the cluster. All running jobs were...

Posted: September 28, 2020, 8:14 PM

Jack Malone retires

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Jack Malone is retiring from DoIT AV Services. When he arrived on campus on September 10, 2001, this was going to be "just a job," but it turned out to be much more. Jack became an informal mentor...

Posted: September 25, 2020, 12:26 PM

Chromebook Extension for Respondus Lockdown Browser in Beta

Currently supports Original courses only

The beta release of a new Chromebook extension for Respondus LockDown Browser is currently available for assessments in Original Blackboard courses. This version of the Chromebook extension also...

Posted: September 25, 2020, 10:23 AM