Resolved: ServiceNow loading slowly

Incident Discovery Time: 10:20am on 02/08/2012
ServiceNow is currently degraded. The service is still available, but will take some time for pages to reload….

Resolved: FTP connections to server currently unavailable

FTP connections to server now available…

Resolved: Database unavailability – Thin Clients and Terminal Services affected

IS & T teams have resolved this incident at 5:30 pm on 2/6/2012

Incident Discovery Time: 05:02pm on 02/06/2012
Thin Client computers, such as those at the BU Common @ Mugar, are currently unavailable, as are Terminal Services.
IS&T teams are also identifying if any additional services are impacted and will post them on Tech Web as they are known….

Resolved: Blackboard Learn unavailable

Time of Resolution: 04:22pm on 02/06/2012
Clients were unable to access Blackboard Learn. Blackboard 8 and Blackboard Vista were unaffected.
IS&T teams have resolved the incident….

Digication System Maintenance – February 16 at 4am

Digication will be performing system maintenance beginning Thursday, February 16 at 4am EST. http://bu.digication.com will be unavailable from 4am to 4:30am EST. No course data will be lost, but you and your students will not have access to any portfolios during the maintenance window. If you experience any performance problems after the maintenance has been…

MGHPCC Awards $600,000 in Seed Grants

Several researchers from Boston University have been awarded seed grants through the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). These seed grants are intended to accelerate computational collaboration among the MGHPCC partner universities: Boston University, Harvard University,  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts. Of the seven teams receiving grants,…