Year: 2023

SSCC News December 2023

Introducing Open OnDemand We are happy to announce a pilot of Open OnDemand, a new way to access interactive Linux servers. OnDemand lets you run all the same programs as Linstat and submit jobs to Slurm, but with a graphical “desktop” interface similar to Winstat or a regular PC or Mac. You can also start …

SSCC News October 2023

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 …

SSCC News for August 2023

SSCC Training The SSCC’s fall training schedule is now available. We’d like to particularly draw the attention of new graduate students to the “Introduction to…” and “Data Wrangling in…” workshops in Stata, R, and Python, as these workshops are designed for you! You should take an “Introduction to…” workshop if you: Will be taking a …

SSCC News May 2023

Summer Training Schedule The SSCC’s summer training schedule is still available and the fall training schedule will be posted soon. As always it will include data wrangling classes in R, Stata, and Python and our regular workshop on regression diagnostics. Summer is a great time to fill in any gaps in your skillset, and data wrangling …

SSCC News March 2023

Slurm Update Usage of the SSCC Slurm cluster is growing rapidly: Slurm did more computing in February than Linstat ever has in a single month. But there’s still plenty of room for SSCC researchers to think bigger. Slurm users should not hesitate to put unused capacity to work. If your job will run faster with …