Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid
@ Cornell University
What?
Usual social science data management and analysis tools not available on TeraGrid (TG) itself: SAS, SPSS, Stata
Also provides standard TG tools: R, compilers, etc.
Graphical desktop access to SSG compute nodes
High-speed (10Gbps) access to TeraGrid and thus to thousands of compute nodes and/or data
Local data storage (base allocation includes some storage, additional storage from Cornell storage cloud at cost)
TeraGrid
U.S. Census RDC
What?
More information
How?
Request TG
allocation
Request SSG account
Start using SSG
Ready for TG?
What else?
Other Cornell resources
Cornell TG Matlab cluster
Additional storage from Cornell storage cloud at cost
SSG = VirtualRDC
VirtualRDC replicates the environment of the U.S. Census RDC network (Linux OS, GUI)
Provides zero-obs datasets replicating data structure of RDC confidential data
Provides (where available) synthetic versions of confidential datasets, including early-release access

Who?
Researcher has existing theory/model/data
Project requires substantially more resources than typically locally available
Researcher 
is comfortable with the traditional data tools (SAS, SPSS)
Less comfortable with TeraGrid tools
Iterate
!
Until finished