VirtualRDC News @ Cornell

We’ve installed GRASS, QGIS, and the relevant R interface spgrass6 as well as related packages, [More »]

You can now submit papers and register to participate at the planned workshop. Details are at http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf-census-irs-workshop2009/. A preliminary program can be found there as well.

We will be doing OS maintenance this Friday 8:30-9:00 EDT. A brief reboot will be necessary. Please plan accordingly.

CSvD (@Census) is planning an extended downtime to migrate NSF01 storage to the new SAN.
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CSvD (@ Census) is planning an upgrade of the current network connection from 100Mbps to 1Gbps. This involves briefly (expected: 5min) interruption of network access to NSF01. Your SSH connections may or may not survive.

This network interruption is planned for Friday, March 27, 2009, early in the morning.

All installed R packages have been updated to the latest version as of 2009-03-20.

The 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings will be held August 1 – 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. For more details, see http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2009/index.cfm.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Should now be functional again.

The 21^st annual EALE Conference takes place on September 10-12, 2009, at the Reval Hotel Olümpia conference Centre, Tallinn, Estonia. [More »]

The 2009 Census Research Data Center Conference will be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, on October 5-6.  Highlights will include participation from researchers working in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, as well as a poster presentation option in additional to the more usual paper presentation format.  Further details are provided in the attached 2009 Census RDC Conference Call for Papers (PDF version).