COMPUTING FACILITIES

Microsoft's Windows NT/2000 and UNIX workstations. The backbone of Kellogg's computing is a Windows NT/2000 network. Kellogg also maintains a UNIX server for research purposes.

Windows XP/2003 facilities

The backbone of Kellogg's computing infrastructure is a Microsoft Windows network. Every faculty member and doctoral student at Kellogg gets a Windows XP/2003 account with a default allocation of 200MB in his/her home directory. This home directory is mapped as drive "H:" when the user logs in. Under the current operational framework, application software is installed in individual machines, rather than in a network server.

Many doctoral students at Kellogg get shared offices in which they have access to desktop computers or can bring their own and connect to the network. KIS has prepared a page with guidelines for PhD technical support.

Kellogg maintains two computer laboratories, one in the Jacobs complex, and one in Wieboldt Hall. Some machines in both labs are labeled as "special software" and these include statistical and other research related software packages: Matlab, SPSS, Stata, X-Win32, Scientific WorkPlace, etc. Faculty may rely on these software packages for instructional use.

Unix/Linux

Kellogg owns a Unix server, named "skew3.kellogg.northwestern.edu", accessible to faculty and doctoral sudents, strictly for the purpose of research computing.

For additional information on any of the available UNIX systems, please follow the links provided.

• Kellogg's Unix server (skew3): Skew3 is a Sun Fire V480 server, running SunOS 5.8. It has four UltraSparc III processors, running at 1.2 GHz. The total RAM space of skew3 is 16 GB. The total hard usable disk space for application and data is 1.7 TB. The storage consists of two 73 GB internal hard disk drives, an A1000 Raided Disk Array which contains twelve 36GB disks arranged in a number of partitions (non raided) and a Sun StorEdge 3510 disk array that includes 12 146GB, 10,000 rpm raided drives.

• The Social Science Computing Cluster: This is Linux environment with access to 36 AMD Opteron 2.8GHz CPUs and 8GB of RAM per node in each compute node (versus 16 in the master nodes). Users get a quota of of 1GB by default and can run up to 8 concurrent jobs in batch. Datasets from Northwestern institutional memberships in ICPSR and the Roper Institute are stored in this system.