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Alternate “First-login” (SSH) instructions

We have recently tested a browser-based SSH client. Previous clients required a server-side Java or similar app. For users of Google Chrome, the “Secure Shell” app from the Chrome Webstore works without anything on our servers. We have updated the “first-login” instructions, but you can of course use this anytime instead of the graphical NX [...]

New Survey of Business Owners Public Use Microdata Sample: 2007

The Census Bureau has released a new Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for 2007. The data file is available on the SSG for users with compute accounts. The data structure for the confidential microdata, which can be accessed exclusively in the Census RDC, is replicated on the SSG in the [...]

[delayed] Migration to new download server

Our core download and web server is now several years old, and we have migrated several services to new servers. This website has been migrated for quite some time now, but we are finishing up migrating the (large) data download servers to a new service provider. We have nearly completed that task (it still takes [...]

Please provide us with papers, bibliography, uses of our resources

As many of you know, we are asked to report the impact of the grant by, among other things, listing any publications that were made possible (in part) by the grants supporting the VirtualRDC and its components, the SSG and SDS.

The SSG is funded by NSF grant 0922005. John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber are [...]

Zero-obs for Ownership Change Database (OCD) available on SSG

Zero-obs files for the Ownership Change Database (OCD) are now available on VirtualRDC’s SSG compute nodes. [...]