Category Archives: Computing

IU Secure retires soon. Switch to eduroam. IU Secure, the university’s outgoing wireless network, will be retired on March 31, 2021. After that, all on-campus wireless users with IU credentials must use eduroam. If you haven’t switched from IU Secure to eduroam, please do it now. New and current eduroam users must also install a […]

Learn more about waiting rooms Users who are logged in with their Zoom at IU accounts will automatically bypass the waiting room by default. This way, meeting hosts won’t have to admit authorized attendees one by one. Participants from outside IU will still need to be individually admitted. The automatic bypass setting can be changed. Hosts will […]

Students, faculty, and staff can take thousands of online courses. IU Human Resources has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer students, faculty, and staff free access to 15,000 expert-led courses and videos on skills related to your area of study or interest. Popular courses include: Introduction to Data Science Supporting the Whole Self at Work […]

Keep Teaching site was set up during 2009 H1N1 flu virus. IU’s Keep Teaching website is helping numerous universities make a shift to remote teaching. Originally designed as a series of Knowledge Base documents during the 2009 H1N1 flu virus, the Keep Teaching site was later developed to help faculty prepare for remote teaching during […]

IU to dedicate new supercomputer as part of Bicentennial celebrations. Big Red 200, IU’s new artificial intelligence supercomputer, will debut as part of IU’s Bicentennial event, “A Day of Commemoration: IU’s 200th Anniversary.” The dedication ceremony is free and open to the public. Date: Monday, January 20, 2020 Time: 10am Location: Cyberinfrastructure Building, Bloomington campus, 2709 E. Tenth Street […]

Supercomputer expansion will increase compute capacity Big Red II+ is getting three times as much compute capacity, and moving from a three-cabinet Cray XC30 system to a spacious, five-cabinet Cray XC40 system. Big Red II+ will be offline between September 16 and October 14 to move into its new digs. Learn more about upcoming changes […]

Big Red II to be decommissioned in preparation for Big Red 200’s installation Supercomputers reach retirement age a lot faster than the rest of us. We have to wait till our sixties, but Big Red II is long in the tooth at age six. Soon there will be a new kid in town, Big Red […]