Here is a list of some of the computing resources available to Sociology faculty, staff, and students:
- Wired network access is available in many rooms. Wireless access points are positioned in 305 and 398, and if you are working with CSES or CSI they have password protected wireless access points available near their offices. All wireless access points require WPA encryption, which often does not work on old laptops.
- A grad student computer lab with 8 networked computers including:
- Standard Software: Microsoft Windows XP, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Bear Access, Symantec/Norton Anti-Virus, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office XP
- Specialized Software: GlimM, Stata 8, SPSS 12, Delphi 5
- LaserJet Printer
- Laptop network jacks - bring your own wire or use the UH305 wireless.
- The mailroom printer is available for faculty and staff.
- The department owns a sheet-feeding scanner, and a flatbed 8½ by 11½ color scanner, and Optical Character Recognition software.
- Two laptop computers and a digital projector are available for borrowing for presentations done inside Uris Hall.
- The G90 computerized classroom is available for teaching purposes.
- The Cornell Institute for
Social and Economic Research (CISER) provides free accounts for:
- The CISER Research nodes (the "Athena nodes") include a group of Unisys and Dell multi-processor (both 32 and 64-bit) servers running the Windows 2003 operating system. Software available on these nodes includes up-to-date versions of SAS, Stata, SPSS, S-Plus, Gauss, Genstat, Limdep, Matlab, Mathematica, Perl, Stat/Transfer and more. There are ten terabytes of shared disk space.
- The CISER Cornell Restricted Access Data Center secure nodes (the "CRADC nodes") include Dell multi-processor servers running Windows 2003 operating system. Software available on these nodes includes up-to-date versions of SAS, Stata SE, SPSS, Gauss, Matlab, Compaq Visual Fortran V6, and MPIPro, ASReml, aML, GLIM, Genstat, eViews, StatTransfer and other tools like TextPad, Microsoft Office, Scientific Workplace, and Adobe Acrobat. This 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.
- 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 nodes includes up-to-date versions of SAS, Stata SE, 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. This open computing system provides researchers with access to synthetic data over the internet, assists potential Census RDC users in preparing their proposals, and trains new users in the operating system environment, data and software available on the real Census RDC.
- The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (formerly the Theory Center) provides many computing services.
- CIT provides 15 MB of web space for “personal” pages at CU People. Contact Marty if you need help with this service.
- The Sociology department also has its own web and file servers. In general, the servers are for use when CIT does not provide an equivalent service.
- I may have various bits of hardware to loan or give, such as cables, cards, modems, keyboards, mice, monitors, or whatever the special of the day is.
- Your friendly neighborhood computer guru has a variety of specialized skills and software packages that may be able to help you.
Not all items are available to all persons at all times. Void where prohibited by law.