Computing Resources

Available for faculty researchers, students, staff and collaborators:

The Research Computing system is a state-of-the art group of high speed, high memory, multi-processor servers currently running Windows 2008 R2.

• Connect from home or office using a Remote Desktop client
• Access to a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative data analysis software
• Generous user disk space is attached to the research servers as the U:\ drive
• User files are backed up every night
• CISER data archive files are also directly accessible from any research server at the V:\ drive
  
  
  • Apply for a computing account on the research servers  
  • CISER Computing News and Announcements
  • CISER research servers hardware summary and specifications
  • CISER research server user's manual
  • Software on the servers
    

The Cornell Restricted Access Data Center secure servers (CRADC) include Dell multi-processor servers running Windows 2008 R2 operating system.

• Secure computing system permits Cornell researchers to acquire, house, and analyze restricted-use data for scientific research
• Access to the CRADC computing system is limited to those using restricted-use data for their research 

• To apply for a CRADC account contact the CRADC Manager 
• Software available on the CRADC System
• About CRADC Computing
• Instructions for Using the CRADC Servers
• CRADC News and Announcements

The Virtual Research Data Center ("VirtualRDC") includes Xeon (32-bit) and Itanium (64-bit) multi-processor servers running Linux operating systems.
 

• Software available on these servers includes: SAS, Stata, MPICH2, ASReml, aML, and R; other open-source software can be installed upon demand
• Text editors (Emacs, Xemacs, vi, kate), compilers (gcc, Intel C++ and Fortran), and office software (OpenOffice, Textmaker) are available
• Open computing system provides researchers with access to synthetic data over the Internet
• Assists potential Census RDC users in preparing their proposals
• Trains new users in the operating system environment, data and software available on the real Census RDC

• To apply for a VirtualRDC account contact the VirtualRDC administrator
• About VirtualRDC
• VirtualRDC News and Announcements

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See Intel's case study about CISER's Research Computing System.  

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The CISER Help Desk can assist you with CISER and CRADC computing questions.

Cornell has several public computer labs; see also public computer labs with statistical software.