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Data Services > Hardware & Facilities

See also: Software Availability.

Hardware & Facilities

All MIT Affiliates | Affiliates of Particular Departments

Following you will find a list of select hardware and facilities for data analysis, available to members of the MIT community.


Available to all MIT Affiliates

Location

Hardware and Facilities
Athena UNIX-based campus-wide academic computing facility. Provides access to software and 1GB storage space.
Dewey Library, Workstation 15 Workstation with statistical software programs. Enables the MIT Community to:
  • download data
  • import data into, or convert between, different software packages
  • perform data analysis
  • store data on a temporary basis
  • export data using FTP or CD-ROM
Harvard-MIT Data Center

Eight workstations with a variety of analysis software.

Research accounts on Linux server for specialized research projects. Available to MIT affiliates with time-limited, faculty-sponsored projects. Accounts may be used on-site or remotely via Virtual Network Computing (VNC). See the application form.



Available Only to Affiliates of Particular Departments

Location

Hardware and Facilities
Department of Economics

Labs house:

  • 20 Pentium 4, 3 GHz computers. Each with 1 GB memory and an internal cd writer.
  • 2 Quad Pentium III Xeon batch-processing servers.
  • 2 full color flatbed scanners.
  • 10 Athena workstations
  • Sun Enterprise and Linux servers

Students get 5GB of disk space for their windows accounts and 5GB for their Unix accounts.
Department of Political Science Five Athena workstations and seven PCs in computing lab.
Department of Urban Studies & Planning A mix of PCs, Macs and Athena machines are available in several clusters mostly located in and around the Building 7 area. Integrated with Department of Architecture computing.
Sloan School of Management Two PC labs and networked storage space. In addition, PhD students and faculty have access to Unix computing platform.

 

Quick Links

- Harvard-MIT Data Center

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New Resources

- China Data Online (MIT only)
- Historical Statistics of the United States (MIT only)
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 Katherine McNeill, Social Science Data Services and Economics Librarian, mcneillh@mit.edu
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