Article archive for May, 2007

Call for Papers: Labor Market Flows, Productivity and Wage Dynamics: Ideas and Results

May 31st, 2007

Call for papers to “LABOR MARKET FLOWS, PRODUCTIVITY AND WAGE DYNAMICS: IDEAS AND RESULTS FROM EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE LINKED LONGITUDINAL DATABASES”. The conference is organized by LABORatorio R. Revelli, Centre for Employment Studies, and will be held in Moncalieri (Torino) at Collegio Carlo Alberto on September 14 – 15, 2007.

VRDC6401 back up (late notice…)

May 21st, 2007

Sorry for the late notice, but VRDC6401 was back up again on May 17 (after a power failure, the node had failed to turn back on again…)

VRDC6401 down

May 16th, 2007

We are working on a fix.

QWI Public Use data available for download on VirtualRDC

May 15th, 2007

The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) are published by the LEHD Program at the U.S. Census Bureau. Public use data are available at http://vrdc.ciser.cornell.edu/qwipu/ (registration required by sending email to virtualrdc@cornell.edu. [More »]

Addition of LaTeX functionality on the VRDC Trac sites

May 9th, 2007

For those of you using the Trac Wikis, LaTeX rendering has been enabled. [More »]

OpenOffice 2.2 now available on NSF01

May 9th, 2007

The office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, etc) OpenOffice 2.2 is now available on NSF01.

Repository updated with latest patches, latest Trac

May 8th, 2007

The repository server has been updated with the latest security patches, including to Trac. Please let us know if you encounter any problems.

Maintenance downtimes on VirtualRDC May 9-May11 2007

May 8th, 2007

We are doing some system upgrades, testing, and introducing some new hardware (if testing goes well). Please expect some downtimes over the next three days. [More »]

Statistical tool R, graphical conversion tool ImageMagick installed

May 8th, 2007

For users of NSF01, the following software has been installed:

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NSF01 downtime for Friday, May 11, 2007

May 7th, 2007

A diagnostic downtime to identify possible hardware problems with the SGI Altix 3700bx2 has been scheduled for Friday, May 11, 2007, from 12:01 (PM) to 18:00.