Stern Center for Research Computing

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/scrc

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

The Mission of the Stern Center for Research Computing

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

High Performance Grid Computing Environment

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

Cloud Computing

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!)

“Big Data” cluster

Host large datasets reliably

More than 150 TB total storage

High speed access

Backed up

Data conversion services

Storage

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…

Data and Data Portals

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…

Research Software and Programming Tools

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

Consulting