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The 1940 Census Counts, and Counting is important to Our History Vernon Burton, Clemson
University
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Cyberenvironments
Cyberenvironments couple traditional desktop scientific and engineering applications with national and global cyber-resources to provide researchers an unprecedented capability to assemble, integrate, automate, and manage complex, collaborative projects.
Cyberenvironments will ensure that the capabilities in the national cyberinfrastructure can be brought to bear on the most challenging science and engineering issues facing the nation and the world.
Key Components of a Cyberenvironment
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NCSA Blue Waters Supercomputer10 petaflops (10
quadrillion calculations every second)
300,000 eight-core 4.0 GHz processors with 32MB
on-die L3 cache1 petabyte memory
10 petabyte harddisk storage
400 gigabits per second Internet connectivity
Half an exabyte archival storage
$208 million
IPUMS http://www.ipums.org
Collect and preserve data and documentationHarmonize data
Disseminate the data absolutely freeBut: sample is too small, no histoire-
totale data
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