The SSCC makes a tremendous amount of computing power available to its members through its various servers. For technical details about these servers see our Knowledge Base article Computing Resources at the SSCC.

Winstat

Winstat is the SSCC's Windows Terminal Server farm. Windows Terminal Servers allow you to log in to a Windows server remotely with full access to both the SSCC network and the software installed on the server. Software installed on the Winstats include general purpose statistical software like Stata, SAS and SPSS, special purpose statistical software like HLM and NVivo, and general Windows programs like Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, and Macromedia Dreamweaver. Logging in to Winstat is also the easiest way to transfer files between the SSCC and home or other locations.

Lab PCs

The SSCC's computer labs have more than 50 powerful PCs with a variety of statistical software installed. For more information about the SSCC's computer labs, see SSCC Computer Labs and Information for SSCC Instructional Lab Users.

Sensitive Data Enclave

If you are working with data that cannot be stored on a network, Data & Information Services Center (DISC) makes a Secure Computing Enclave available.

Linux Servers

The SSCC has three public use Linux servers, Hal, Kite and Falcon. All have a variety of statistical software installed, plus compilers and other Linux tools. Falcon runs 64-bit Linux and is used for jobs that require more memory than 32-bit Linux can provide.

Condor

The SSCC Condor flock is ideal for long jobs or running multiple jobs at the same time. The SSCC has 30 CPU's running Linux dedicated to executing jobs submitted using Condor. See An Introduction to Condor for instructions on using these machines.

Beowulf

The SSCC has a Beowulf cluster for jobs requiring parallel processing. Jobs for Beowulf must be written in FORTRAN or C/C++ and use MPI or PVM for parallelization. See Using the SSCC's Beowulf Clusters for instructions on using these machines.

All computing systems (except for the Sensitive Data Enclave) are connected via Ethernet to the Sewell Social Sciences Building high-speed Gigabit Ethernet backbone.