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DoIT's Sherri Braxton Leaving UMBC

What can I say, it’s 2020. I’m writing to announce that Sherri Braxton, Senior Director of Instructional Technology in the Division of Information Technology, has accepted a new position as Senior...

Posted: December 14, 2020, 10:50 AM

Taki Login Node downtime tomorrow at 5 pm (Login Reboot)

We are installing patches on the login nodes

We will be taking a brief downtime on the login nodes to install patches. This will not effect running jobs, but you will be logged out of the taki.rs.umbc.edu and other login nodes. We expect...

Posted: December 14, 2020, 10:49 AM

Google Widespread Outage early Monday Morning

Email, Calendar and Docs are unavailable until 8:00am

This morning Google had a widespread outage that affected all of their services, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs, Google Meet and Youtube. Service was quickly restored by approximately...

Posted: December 14, 2020, 8:23 AM

Outcomes Report of NSF MRI Grant Posted

Report provides visual highlights of work using taki

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, In 2017, a group of 51 UMBC researchers was successful in competing for an MRI (Major Research Infrastructure) grant from the NSF. Having this many...

Posted: December 13, 2020, 8:36 AM