VirtualRDC News @ Cornell

The brief interruption of activity on NSF01 is to finally clear up the SGI storage issue. Activity will occur on the SGI storage subsystem, and a reboot may occur. (This was originally scheduled for earlier in the day).

This was postponed to later in the day.

The 86th Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Economic Association are being held in SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS April 12-15, 2006.

Thanks to the CSvD support staff, we now have access to

• subversion (track changes in your programs, and roll back changes, if needed)
• LaTeX (including AMS-LaTeX and the ability to create PDF files directly)

Please let us know if you have any other software requirements, and we will work with CSvD to implement them. All these packages are also available on the VirtualRDC computers.

The VirtualRDC guide describes the steps you need to perform in order to log in to one of our nodes. [More »]

The Canadian Econometrics Study Group (CESG) invites papers for the 23rd annual CESG meetings to be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Oct. 19-21, 2006. The conference is hosted by Brock University. More information at http://coffee.econ.brocku.ca/cesg/ [More »]

We have compiled and installed Octave for ia64. It is available on VRDC6401, but has not yet been tested. [More »]

“We are pleased to announce that the New York City RDC at Baruch College has received official Census Bureau approval to open its doors!” [More »]

There will be an extended downtime tomorrow morning on NSF01 (EDT). We hope that this will solve our access to the remaining 7TB of SGI storage, but there may be additional steps involved. The downtime might be as short as one hour, or might take all morning. An email update will be sent when all is clear.