Social Sciences Computing Cluster

SAS 9.2 Installed

SSCC Admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:00:49 +0000

SAS 9.2 is an integrated suite of software of great breadth and depth. SAS is available on all SSCC hosts. SAS is composed of many components, and our license includes Base SAS, Graph, ETS, FSP, AF, OR, IML, STAT, GIS, ASSIST, EIS, LAB, Stat Studio and INSIGHT.

The SAS 9 manuals are available with a web browser. Use the sasdoc command to access them. These manuals can be displayed in HTML or as PDF files.

Available on all SSCC hosts. See http://www.sas.com/software/sas9/ [sas, xsas, sasdoc]

ACML 4.2.0 Installed

SSCC Admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:03:18 +0000

AMD Core Math Library (ACML) Version 4.2.0 is a set of numerical routines tuned specifically for AMD Opteron processors as are used in the SSCC. Fortran 77 and C interfaces are provided, and include BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms), LAPACK (a comprehensive package of higher level linear algebra routines), FFTs (a set of Fast Fourier Transform routines for real and complex data), a variety of RNGs (Random Number Generators) and ACML_MV (Fast Math and Fast Vector Math Library). Available on all SSCC hosts. See Accessing the Library (Linux) to learn more about using ACML in the SSCC. ACML libraries are provided for a large suite of compilers with 64-bit architectures (PGI, GNU/gfortran, and Intel). See AMD Core Math Library (ACML).[acmldoc, acmlinfo]

R upgraded to version 2.8.0

SSCC Admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:04:48 +0000

R Version 2.8.0 is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R. See also S-PLUS below. Available on all SSCC hosts. See http://www.r-project.org/. [R, Rdoc]

Matlab R2008b installed

SSCC Admin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:06:15 +0000

MATLAB Version 7.7 (R2008b) for Linux x86-64, an integrated technical computing environment that combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization, and a high-level programming language. We have a relevant subset of all available subproducts and toolboxes installed.

Our installation includes Matlab, the Bioinformatics Toolbox, the Control System Toolbox, the Curve Fitting Toolbox, the Econometrics Toolbox, the Financial Toolbox, the Fixed-Point Toolbox, the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox, the Image Processing Toolbox, the Neural Network Toolbox, the Optimization Toolbox, the Partial Differential Equation Toolbox, the Signal Processing Toolbox, Simulink, the Spline Toolbox, the Statistics Toolbox, the Symbolic Math Toolbox, the System Identification Toolbox, the NAG Foundation Toolbox (32-bit only), and the Matlab Compiler.

MATLAB is available on all SSCC hosts under a campus-wide license. See http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/. [matlab, xmatlab, matlabdoc, nagdoc]

DYNARE V3 and V4 installed

SSCC Admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:07:14 +0000

DYNARE Versions 3 and 4 is a package that runs with MATLAB to solve, simulate and estimate macroeconomic models. It is a powerful and highly customizable engine, with an intuitive front-end interface, to solve, simulate and estimate Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models. Available on all SSCC hosts. See http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/dynare/ and How to Use Dynare with MATLAB.

KNITRO solver for nonlinear optimization installed

SSCC Admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:08:17 +0000

KNITRO Version 5.2, is a solver for nonlinear optimization. KNITRO is designed for large problems with dimensions running into the hundred thousands. It is effective for solving linear, quadratic and nonlinear optimization problems, both convex and nonconvex. It is provided as a library callable from Fortran, Java, C and C++.

MATLAB R2008a is configured to call KNITRO from the MATLAB Optimization Toolbox with the external interface function ktrlink . Available on all SSCC hosts. See http://www.ziena.com/knitro.htm and How To Use KNITRO with MATLAB.

Gauss upgraded to version 9.0.2

SSCC Admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:10:00 +0000

GAUSS Version 9.0.2 (x64), the GAUSS Mathematical and Statistical System. Includes the applications Optimization, Constrained Optimization, Curve Fit, Discrete Choice, Descriptive Statistics MT, Loglinear Analysis MT, Linear Programming MT, Linear Regression MT, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Maximum Likelihood Estimation MT, Constrained Maximum Likelihood Estimation MT, Nonlinear Equations MT, Time Series and Time Series MT. See above within this document for information about the application Amelia.

GAUSS is available on all SSCC hosts under the constraint of 15 simultaneous users. See http://www.aptech.com/. [gauss, xgauss, gaussdoc]

Ox Console version 5.10 installed

SSCC Admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:12:51 +0000

Ox Console Release 5.10 (64-bit) is an object-oriented matrix language with a syntax similar to the C, C++ and Java languages. A comprehensive matrix function library is provided with Ox, and fairly extensive documentation is available online. Many optional packages are also available upon request. Available on all SSCC hosts. See http://www.doornik.com/index.html. [oxl, oxdoc]

GraphViz 2.20.2 installed

SSCC Admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:15:37 +0000

GraphViz Version 2.20.2 provides a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph drawing has many important applications in software engineering, database and web design, networking, and in visual interfaces for many other domains.

GraphViz is available on hardin, seldon and mule2. See http://www.graphviz.org/. [dot, neato, lefty, dotty]

Matlab R2008a installed

SSCC Admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:14:45 +0000

MATLAB is available on all SSCC hosts under a campus-wide license. See http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/. [matlab, xmatlab, matlabdoc, nagdoc]

Stata-SE upgraded to version 10.1

SSCC Admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:22:00 +0000

Stata-SE 10.1 Linux 64 for AMD 64-bit CPUs is an environment for manipulating and analyzing data using statistical and graphical methods. Stata-SE is available on all SSCC hosts, but is restricted to 36 simultaneous users. See http://www.stata.com/info/capabilities/. [stata, xstata, statadoc]

R upgraded to version 2.7.1

SSCC Admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:19:00 +0000

Singular 3-0-4 computer algebra system installed

SSCC Admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:58:04 +0000

Singular Version 3-0-4 (64-bit) is a computer algebra system for polynomial computations with special emphasis on the needs of commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory. Singular is one of two leading programs to find all solutions for polynomial systems, which is a topic of interest in game theory (economics). This approach is used in current research to answer the question: “How many possible equilibria does the economic model in question have?”

Available on all SSCC hosts. See http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/index.html. [Singular, ESingular, Singulardoc]

ACML 4.1.0 Installed

SSCC Admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:59:38 +0000

X-Win32 9.1 Now Available

SSCC Admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:02:11 +0000

http://www.at.northwestern.edu/x-win32/