R&A Office Hours Present will be both a research computing and a research programming team member, so bring your questions about research technologies, data, and programming … if it’s part of your research, we want to learn about it, and help you accomplish your research goals. Or just stop in…Read More
8 Qualtrics Hacks That’ll Make Your Life Easier – Number 6 Will Make Your Day
Researchers live for collecting data. Here at Wharton we use Qualtrics regularly, and our postgraduates are always doing something more complicated than a conjoint analysis or Likert scale. These are some of our favorite Qualtrics hacks that multiply your ability to get a great data set. The examples below are…Read More
HPCC Dropbox Client Retirement
Dropbox on Wharton’s HPC Cluster has been a great tool for many of you! The ability to sync files between desktop, HPCC, home, phone, and collaborators is of immense value. However, Dropbox has announced that on November 7th, 2018 Dropbox will no longer support our setup* with their official client,…Read More
Need Programming? We’ve Got You Covered!
Wharton Research IT is pleased to announce we have expanded our programming resources to include the following: Research programming: We now have programmers available to help build experiments, applications and more in support of your research. To request programming help, please contact research-programming@wharton.upenn.edu You can find out more at https://research-it.wharton.upenn.edu/consulting/research-programming/ Statistical consulting: …Read More
MariaDB Optimization Improves Database Speeds
Would you like to improve the performance of queries on your research database? Wharton Research Computing can help you with that. Read on, or contact us for more info. The correct choice for working with data is not always a regular file. Sometimes, the proper solution is a database. Queries…Read More
Research Computing Desktop for Graphics
Do you need to visualize your data or create a figure from results produced on the cluster? Part of the Wharton High-Performance Computing Cluster, the HPC3 Desktop is available to all users of the system. Access is at https://hpc3-desktop.wharton.upenn.edu via a web browser. You may need to first connect to…Read More
Wharton Research Computing Featured in Case Study
Check out the great write up from Univa about our use of cloud computing for high-performance computing. We have been using UniCloud to provide a seamless cloud computing solution to Wharton researchers. https://blogs.univa.com/2017/09/leading-us-into-the-cloud-a-new-case-study-featuring-the-wharton-school/
More RAM for All
We recently adjusted the amount of RAM / memory available to all users of the High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC). The default all.q job queue cap has been raised from 640GB to 1024GB, a whole terabyte of memory! Additionally, if you are not familiar with the short.q job queue, please give…Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Archiving
via S3 + Glacier via Bucket Lifecycle Rules Since Amazon’s Glacier can be a good bit more difficult to work with directly than their S3, unless you have trivially small needs or untrivially deep pockets I recommend a hybrid solution: S3 + Glacier. I prefer to use S3 via the awscli Python module for…Read More
WRDS “Value Add” Products Presentation
We’re pleased to announce that WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) will be here at Wharton presenting an overview of several new and powerful “Value Add” products that they have created for their researchers (that means you!). Please join us for this overview and Q & A session with Luis Palacios, PhD…Read More