What are the technical specifications of the HSRDC server environment?
A3. Our primary server is a 16-CPU Dell PowerEdge Rack 900 (4xQC E7330 Xeon 2.4GHz with 64 GB RAM) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with an attached 8 terabyte storage area network. The user interface is the BASH Unix shell, accessed remotely via secure shell (SSH) connections via a private (fixed IP list) network. SAS and STATA licenses are maintained for the server, as well as the ‘R’ statistical package, permitting a wide array of statistical analyses. X-11 forwarding permits users to run server programs using graphical-user-interface (GUI) via X-Windows emulator software such as Cygwin.