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DoIT Adjusts Support of Bb Ultra Rollout

All faculty still decide when to migrate before FA21

Based on new analysis of how Blackboard (Bb) Ultra has been adopted across campus, DoIT has decided to modify its approach to faculty support across colleges.  Specifically, DoIT will focus on...

Posted: November 26, 2019, 7:57 AM

Why CNMS Student Bb Use is So High

Use of Assessments is Key -- and Informs Ultra Rollout

When DoIT announced the phased rollout of Blackboard (Bb) Ultra on April 4 of this year, we did so based on the number of courses typically using Bb in each college as of Spring 2019, starting...

Posted: November 25, 2019, 10:59 PM

Slurm Slow to Respond on Taki

Good morning, We are aware that slurm commands such as squeue and sacct are running slowly or even timing-out this morning. We are investigating the issue. Slurm documentation seems to indicate...

Posted: November 25, 2019, 8:12 AM

11-15-2019 5:00 pm Downtime for RT

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, DoIT's Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 15th between 5:00pm-6:00pm for the RT system....

Posted: November 13, 2019, 10:00 AM

Reboot of taki-usr1

Good morning! Due to memory consumption on the taki login node, `taki-usr1`, we are rebooting the node to clear associated errors. When free memory on one of our machines drops below a...

Posted: November 13, 2019, 9:32 AM