Welcome to the SSCC! If this is your first SSCC News, we welcome you to the Social Science Computing Core! Whether you’re a new faculty member, a new grad student, or an undergrad taking a class that uses SSCC services, we’re here to help you succeed. Visit the SSCC web site to learn about the services …
New Funding for Computing Resources We’re excited to announce that the SSCC has received a $250,000 award from the Research Core Revitalization Program, and $2 million in capital equipment funding from UW–Madison. We are grateful to the University for this funding, and to College of Letters & Science leadership for their advocacy on behalf of …
The SSCC is Now the Social Science Computing Core It’s official: the SSCC is now the Social Science Computing Core, a suite of research computing services provided by College of Letters & Science Information Technology Services (L&S ITS). And if you didn’t notice any differences, that’s by design. Most SSCC services will be completely unaffected, …
SSCC to be Merged into L&S Information Technology Services In February 2026 the Social Science Computing Cooperative will be merged into the College of Letters and Science Information Technology Services group (L&S ITS). We will continue to provide the same services to the same people as we did under the SSCC, including those outside of …
Welcome to the SSCC! If this is your first SSCC News, we welcome you to the Social Science Computing Cooperative! Whether you’re a new faculty member, a new grad student, or an undergrad taking a class that uses SSCC services, we’re here to help you succeed. Visit the SSCC web site to learn about the …
Summer Tech Update Downtime: August 9 9:00AM-5:00PM On Saturday, August 9th, all SSCC servers will be offline for our semiannual process where we update all of our servers and software. New software versions include R 4.5.1 and Stata 19. R and Julia users will probably need to reinstall all the packages you use after the …
Mind Your Memory Linstat users may have noticed recent episodes of servers running slowly, caused by them running low on memory. At times the servers have had to kill jobs to keep from crashing. To reduce the frequency of these episodes, we will reduce the maximum amount of memory each user can use on Linstat …
SSCC Training It’s not too late to sign up for the SSCC’s qualitative data analysis workshops: Using Software for Qualitative Analysis, Introduction to NVivo, and Introduction to MaxQDA. Remember, Caitlin is only with us temporarily, so these workshops may not be taught again. Caitlin is also available for consulting on qualitative analysis. We’re also teaching …
Caitlin’s Back! (Temporarily) The SSCC Help Desk has been short-staffed since August and, by happy coincidence, Caitlin Tefft is temporarily available. Caitlin worked for the SSCC from 2009 to 2021 before she left to complete her Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies with a concentration in Data/Information Management & Analytics. She’ll be working half-time …
Welcome to the SSCC! We want to extend a warm welcome to all the new members of the Social Science Computing Cooperative, whether you’re a new faculty member, staff member, or graduate student who will use our resources for research; or an undergraduate taking a class that uses SSCC resources. What is the SSCC? The …