The Department of Economics houses its own computing cluster to serve the needs of faculty and graduate students.

The Economics Computing Cluster is a Linux-based system. In brief, the cluster consists of one Sun Fire V40z server, eight Sun Fire V20z servers, and one Penguin Computing Altus 600 server, all running Scientific Linux 4.7 x86_64. Each of the V20z servers has two AMD Opteron 250 CPUs; four of the servers have 8G of RAM and the other four have 4G of RAM. The V40z server has four AMD Opteron 850 CPUs and 32G of RAM. The Altus 600 server has two dual-core AMD Opteron 2218 CPUs and 16G of RAM.

The cluster includes approximately 7T of RAID storage, spread amongst one IBM and one HP file server (both running Scientific Linux 5.x i386), and a Sun StorEdge 3511 FC Array.

Statistical software available on the cluster includes Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Stata/SE, Stat/Transfer, R, and RATS.

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Computing Contact

Pann McCuaig, Systems Coordinator
(212) 854-8689 voice
(212) 854-8059 fax