Stern Center for Research Computing

 We are devoted to providing world class facilities and services to ◦ help researchers solve problems that are computationally challenging ◦ make it possible to attack previously infeasible problems with innovative computational techniques ◦ assist researchers by offering consulting services for all aspects of research specific computing  Provide dozens of business data sources, the foundation of successful business research

 For long running computations and/or tasks with large memory requirements  Run multiple tasks simultaneously across many machines  Free alternative to purchasing and/or dedicating personal computer hardware for research  Parallel GPU computing for intensive matrix operations with MATLAB

 Specialized virtual machines for research projects  Access from anywhere research desktop  Free alternative to purchasing research dedicated personal computer hardware  Customizable ◦ # of processors up to 8 ◦ RAM size up to 32GB ◦ disk size up to 1 TB local ◦ 10 gb network connectivity ◦ Linux or Windows platforms

 Hadoop cluster for analyzing and processing very large textual data sets  Processing of distributed data across nodes  Tools ◦ hive – sql language ◦ hbase – distributed database ◦ pig – parallel data manipulation language ◦ Mahout – data mining ◦ datameer – spreadsheet-like interface ◦ Tableau – Drag and drop reporting and graphics ◦ SAS interface (coming soon!)

 Host large datasets reliably  More than 150 TB total storage  High speed access  Backed up  Data conversion services

 WRDS – (Wharton Research Data Bases) ◦ majority of Stern’s syndicated data  CRSP, TAQ, Computstat  Stand alone data portals ◦ Bloomberg, Datastream, SDC Platinum  Bobst virtual business library ◦ EBSCO, Thompson ONE, Lexis Nexis, reuters  …And more…

 Site licenses and open source ◦ MATLAB, R, SAS, Stata, Qualtrics  Faculty pricing for personal computers ◦ Stata, SPSS, SAS & Enterprise Miner, mathematica,  Programming ◦ Python, Java, C++, Perl, Shell, FORTRAN  …And more…

 Advice on facilities / services for research projects  Programming / web development for small projects  Help locating consultants for large projects  Help using computing facilities  Help locating data for your research  Installation of research software