VirtualRDC News @ Cornell

NSF01 will be briefly offline tomorrow around noon (estimated) [More »]

The 7TB SGI storage is back online. [More »]

CISER is hosting a wine-and-cheese reception on Wednesday, November 1, 2006. [More »]

The 23rd annual CESG meetings will be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Oct. 19-21, 2006.  The conference is hosted by Brock University.

Theme: The integration of economic theory, econometrics and empirical work

Guest speakers are Steven N. Durlauf (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Eric Ghysels (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill).

Registration information can be obtained at

http://coffee.econ.brocku.ca/testform/reg_instruct.html

All participants need to register for planning purposes.  Please note
that registration after September 30th is substantially higher.

For the hotel rooms block-booked for the conference, the reservation
deadline is September 18th.  Otherwise, we cannot guarantee
rooms (or a reduced rate), as Niagara Falls is busy at that time of
year. You can find information regarding accomodations at

http://coffee.econ.brocku.ca/cesg/accommodation.htm

Since 10/13/2006 09:29 AM, NSF01 is back online, and temporary storage mounted at /temporary/saswork1. However, the storage mounted there is on loan from Census CSvD (3TB from their 3Par SAN), and will need to be removed in the near future (it is thus “temporary” temp space) when the 7TB SGI storage becomes available. [More »]

The next Information Science Breakfast meeting will be held on the coming Friday, October 13. Our speaker will be John Abowd, Professor of ILR and IS, and a member in the Getting Connected project of the Institute for Social Sciences (ISS).

• Who: John Abowd, Professor of ILR and IS
• When: Friday, October 13, 10-11am (coffee and bagels included)
• Where: 301 College Ave., large conference room

Title: Synthetic Data: We Made the Numbers Up, but It’s OK to Use Them
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NSF01’s temp storage is still offline, there are technical problems with rebuilding the filesystem. No ETA when the problem will be solved. [More »]

The recent disk failure will be repaired tonight on the large temp storage. This requires a reboot. Sorry for the short notice. [More »]

The Social Sciences Reception will be held at 391 Pine Tree Road (CISER’s location). We look forward to seeing you from 4:00pm – 6:00pm on Wednesday, November 1st. [More »]

Due to a disk failure on NSF01, /temporary/saswork1/ is currently not accessible. SGI support has been called, but the problem may not be resolved until tomorrow.  As an interim solution, the default -SASWORK has been pointed to /temporary/small/.