VirtualRDC News @ Cornell

Kate is a editor that is installed on most (KDE-based) Linux desktop environments (including our own login nodes at the VirtualRDC). Ian S. has kindly provided us with a syntax-highlighting file for SAS programs. It can be downloaded and installed from http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/extras/RPMS/noarch/sas-kate-syntax-1.0-0.noarch.rpm, although we might move it to our openSUSE BuildService at a later stage (to support other architectures). We actively use this file on our SUSE-based systems, including (soon) on NSF01.

We’ve updated R packages on the x86_64 nodes, and installed JAGS. [More »]

We use a variety of software packages, many of which are open-source. The systems we manage and use are running openSUSE and SLES (9) versions of the Linux operating system. While much of the open-source software can simply be downloaded from the installation media provided by openSUSE/Novell, some of it is not in the standard package format. [More »]

The QWI public use files are very large. Here at the VirtualRDC, we usually use SAS, but occasionally use MySQL. Table definitions and readin programs may come in handy to other users of our data, and we have posted them here. [More »]

As previously announced, R has been upgraded to 2.5.1 on VRDC6401. All libraries seem to load cleanly – let us know if you encounter any problems. This is the version that will also be ported to NSF01. Compiled, tested, and signed RPM packages have been made available for any interested person (running SLES9 on ia64…) at our download site: http://vrdc.ciser.cornell.edu/extras/RPMS/ia64/

For those using Subversion from the command line, a new command-line completion has been installed on the VRDC nodes. For all others, SmartSVN has been updated to 2.1.5. [More »]

SmartSVN is a graphical interface to Subversion. A new version (2.0.1) was recently released, and we have updated our RPMs, which can be downloaded from http://vrdc.ciser.cornell.edu/extras/RPMS/noarch/. The installed versions on VirtualRDC nodes have been upgraded.

We have compiled the latest version of the Icon programming language. RPM packages can be downloaded for i586, x86_64, and ia64 at our download site.

We have compiled and installed Octave for ia64. It is available on VRDC6401, but has not yet been tested. [More »]

For a while, researchers at LEHD and CISER have been using methods that improve on Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (Econometrica, 1999) to compute high-dimensional person and firm effects. [More »]