http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news Information and News from the Cornell VirtualRDC Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:48:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Track the progress of the start of the Social Science Gateway @ VirtualRDC. Hardware ordered: 2009-09 Hardware delivered: 2009-10-08 Hardware installed: 2009-10-13 - 2009-10-16 Operating system installed and functional: Installed Functionality tests completed: testing of file storage Closed beta phase: November-December 2009 Open to all: January 2009 http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/status-of-social-science-gateway/ John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber have used the existing public-use QWI data to construct the first national estimates. The national estimates are an important enhancement to existing series because they include demographic and industry detail for both worker and job flows compiled from data that have been integrated at the ... http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/paper-on-prototype-national-qwi-and-associated-data-are-now-available-for-download/ Title says it all. http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf01-is-back-up/ We are preparing to take 6405 offline in order to integrate it into the new SSG cluster. Our intention is to have the SSG cluster available *before* we take 6405 offline. When taken offline, all data from /rdcprojects.vrdc6405 will be available on vrdc6402, using the same path (i.e., if you ... http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/vrdc6405-users-listen-up-migration-to-ssg/ 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. http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf01-storage-migration-attempt-3/ The most recent QWIPU data for all participating LED states are available for download. The release R2009Q3 covers data through 2008:4. Some states have not been updated due to data quality issues; each state’s version.txt file points to the last updated quarter. Some states have not yet provided data to ... http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/qwipu-r2009q3-data-through-20084-available-on-compute-nodes-and-for-download/ 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 ... http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf01-downtime-and-storage-upgrade-yet-again-postponed/ We are taking the Wiki down for a bit of maintenance. Be right back. http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/maintenance-on-vrdcwiki/ The problematic filesystem (/mixedtmp/lehd3) has been successfully backed up. Until the downtime in October, the filesystem will be made read-only. Please also avoid, to the extent possible, reading from this filesystem. http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/status-of-mixedtmplehd3-on-nsf01/ All servers and any still-active web services are back up after maintenance. Please let us know if you encounter any problems. http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/maintenance-completed/