CISER Computing Resources
The following computing resources are available for faculty researchers, students, staff and collaborators:
The CISER Research Computing system is a state-of-the art group of high speed, high memory, multi-processor servers currently running Windows 2003. Users may connect to these servers from home or office using a Remote Desktop client, and have access to a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative data analysis software applications. Generous user disk space is attached to each of these nodes as the U:\ drive, and user files are backed up every night. CISER Data Archive files are also directly accessible from the file server on any CISER Research nodes.
- Apply for a computing account
- CISER Computing News and Announcements
- Hardware summary and specifications for the CISER Research Nodes
- Instructions for using the CISER Research Nodes
- Software available on the CISER Research Nodes
The CISER Cornell Restricted Access Data Center secure nodes (the "CRADC nodes") include Dell multi-processor servers running Windows 2003 operating system. Software available on these nodes includes up-to-date versions of SAS, Stata SE, SPSS, Gauss, Matlab, Compaq Visual Fortran V6, and MPIPro, aML, GLIM, Genstat, eViews, StatTransfer and other tools like TextPad, Microsoft Office, Scientific Workplace, and Adobe Acrobat. This secure computing system permits Cornell researchers to acquire, house, and analyze restricted-use data for scientific research. Access to the CRADC computing system is limited to those using restricted-use data for their research.
- To apply for a CRADC account contact the CRADC Manager
- About CRADC Computing
- Instructions for Using the CRADC Nodes
- CRADC News and Announcements
The Virtual Research Data Center ("VirtualRDC") includes Xeon (32-bit) and Itanium (64-bit) multi-processor servers running Linux operating systems. Software available on these nodes includes up-to-date versions of SAS, Stata SE, MPICH2, ASReml, aML, and R; other open-source software can be installed upon demand. Text editors (Emacs, Xemacs, vi, kate), compilers (gcc, Intel C++ and Fortran), and office software (OpenOffice, Textmaker) are available. This open computing system provides researchers with access to synthetic data over the internet, assists potential Census RDC users in preparing their proposals, and trains new users in the operating system environment, data and software available on the real Census RDC.
- To apply for a VirtualRDC account contact the VirtualRDC administrator
- About VirtualRDC
- VirtualRDC News and Announcements
DellTM and IntelTM have each published a case study about CISER's Research Computing System.
*CISER provides On-line Computing Help for many of these applications, or you may contact our Computing Consulting Helpdesk with questions.
Cornell has several public computer labs; see also public computer labs with statistical software.