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RT(Request Tracker) scheduled downtime for 6-18-2023 at 9pm

RT will be down beginning 9pm on 6-18-2023 (Sunday Evening) for up to 1 hour. This downtime is needed by our systems folks to apply server updates. FYI Joe Kirby, AVP for Business...

Posted: June 15, 2023, 8:41 AM

RESOLVED: AWS Outage Impacting 3rd-Party Tools in Blackboard

At approximately 3:42pm, DoIT staff became aware of a potential outage with third-party tools on our instance Blackboard Learn. System admins confirmed reports that an AWS outage in US-East is...

Posted: June 13, 2023, 4:26 PM

Update on Taki

The work on the Infiniband switch continues

Due to problems with one of our Infiniband switches, a number of 2013 nodes (batch nodes) are currently offline. The repair of the IB switch is taking substantial longer than we had anticipated....

Posted: June 9, 2023, 6:06 PM

Recordings Posted: M.O.S.T. OER Creation Showcase

Watch the keynote and presentations from the OER Showcase

On Friday, May 5 from 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. we held our M.O.S.T. OER Creation Showcase and heard from faculty across the state who have created openly licensed instructional and learning...

Posted: June 5, 2023, 6:09 PM

Taki is back online

The cooling issue has been resolved

I have brought Taki back online. You should be able to start running jobs. I do want to note the status of some nodes that still offline. gpunode001 This node is currently offline. We have had...

Posted: June 2, 2023, 8:45 PM

HPCF Unscheduled Downtime: Cooling Issue

To all taki Users At 16:55, large portions of the taki cluster were abruptly taken offline by administrators to help with an unexpected chiller failure in the data center. This...

Posted: June 2, 2023, 5:10 PM

June brings support for CSV upload of Ultra test questions

New location for Announcements, plus anonymous test grading

Creating many questions on a test can be a time-consuming process. Instructors might import questions using third-party tools or publisher test banks, if compatible or available. Beginning with...

Posted: June 1, 2023, 11:47 AM

Reminder: Blackboard Courses Scheduled for Server Retirement

Courses before Fall 2020 to be retired beginning 7/1

During Summer 2023, DoIT staff and Blackboard will archive our entire instance of Blackboard, which will save individually backed-up copies of every course and organization through SP2023. Courses...

Posted: June 1, 2023, 9:15 AM

taki Downtime Completed

To all taki users, The maintenance downtime for the taki cluster environment is complete. Feel free to begin using the system. We are aware of a few nodes that are down in the batch...

Posted: May 31, 2023, 5:06 PM

Introducing Rex Finance 2.0

Over the last 18 months, we have been working on implementing a new suite of financial reports utilizing Tableau, a visual analytics platform. I am thrilled to announce the launch of these new...

Posted: May 30, 2023, 3:26 PM