Article archive for July, 2009

NSF-Census-IRS Workshop on Synthetic Data and Confidentiality on July 31, 2009

July 30th, 2009

The final program is posted at http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf-census-irs-workshop2009/.  Thanks to all who made the workshop successful through their participation, planning, and other efforts. All presentations will be posted here soon.

Bibliography temporarily turned off

July 29th, 2009

We have turned out the dynamic bibliography feature of this website. We are looking for an alternate implementation. Sorry for the inconvenience.

URGENT MESSAGE FOR FOREIGN (NON-U.S. RESIDENT) PARTICIPANTS OF WORKSHOP

July 29th, 2009

We have discovered a problem with the registration process for foreign participants. If you have not received an email with the subject line ‘Conference Access Confirmed by Security,’ please contact Dawn Anderson (dawn.m.anderson@census.gov) immediately.

NSF-Census-IRS Workshop on Synthetic Data and Confidentiality on July 31, 2009

July 29th, 2009

URGENT MESSAGE FOR FOREIGN (NON-U.S.) PARTICIPANTS

The final print program has been posted to http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf-census-irs-workshop2009/. Participants are still welcome to register. Registration is mandatory to gain access to the Census Headquarters building in Suitland, MD. [More »]

Presentation available on Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid and VirtualRDC

July 29th, 2009

Under Grant SES-0922005, the VirtualRDC is expanding and assuming an additional role: Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid. What does this mean concretely? The following self-guided presentation might shed some light on it for now, while we prepare more concrete information: [More »]

We have been awarded an NSF grant to continue the VirtualRDC and create a Social Science Gateway (SSG) to TeraGrid

July 29th, 2009

John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber have been awarded NSF grant SES-0922005 to continue the VirtualRDC in its current form, as well as create a new Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid. [More »]

QWIPU R2009Q2 (data through 2008:3) available for download

July 27th, 2009

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states are available for download. The release R2009Q2 covers data through 2008:3. [More »]

QWIPU R2009Q2 available on compute nodes, download will follow shortly

July 24th, 2009

The SAS data files for QWIPU release R2009Q2 have replaced the previous version of the QWIPU on the compute nodes. [More »]

QWI R2009Q2 being prepared for download/access on VirtualRDC

July 20th, 2009

We are making last adjustments to the QWI release for R2009Q2 (data through 2008Q3). We expect to be able to release it later this week for download by authorized users and access on the compute nodes.

Success: NSF01 filesystem fully functional again.

July 16th, 2009

As of 2009-07-16, 14:21, /temporary/saswork1 is back online as a 2.9 terabyte filesystem and is available for regular use.