VirtualRDC News @ Cornell

Title says it all.

We are preparing to take 6405 offline in order to integrate it into the new SSG cluster. [More »]

OK, the next attempt is ready to go:

• Starting this Friday, oct 23: all mixedtmp areas will be mounted read-only
• Starting Monday, Oct 26, downtime for 3 days.
• Wed Oct 28, system is back up, but mixedtmp is still being restored.

The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states are available for download. The release R2009Q3 covers data through 2008:4. [More »]

From Census:

The work on NSF01 will not be done this week. There is a problem on 3PAR’s
end, apparently. It turns out that they need to upgrade the frame, and
since we are not the only ones in the frame, they need to reschedule. At
least, this is the gist of it from my conversation with Leo.

We will, as usual, keep you posted.

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).

The 2009 Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (Micro) Data (CAED) Conference will be held from Friday, October 2 to Sunday, October 4, 2009, in Tokyo. This will be the 9th CAED Conference and the first one in Asia. Organizing Institutions are the Global COE Program “Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences (Hi-Stat),” Hitotsubashi University, and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). The aim of CAED conferences is to promote scientific research using enterprise micro data. [More »]