By Lars Vilhuber
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