Institutional Support of Innovations In Applied Econometric Computing

这笔赠款为加州大学伯克利分校计量经济学实验室（EML）的设备升级提供资金，包括用于文件服务器的660 GB光纤通道磁盘托盘和用于备份的五个单元磁带库。 磁盘托盘将增加EML的存储容量，并提供更大，更快的磁盘，以改善I/O以及RAID性能和故障安全功能。 新的可移动媒体技术将与新的磁盘技术保持同步。 EML为经济研究提供了最先进的计算环境，特别是在计算密集型方法和超大数据集分析方面。 扩展其磁盘存储和备份功能提供了应用计量经济学研究人员和研究生论文学生迫切需要的关键资源。

This grant provides funding for equipment upgrades for the Econometrics Laboratory (EML) at the University of California, Berkeley, including a 660GB fiber channel disk tray for its fileserver, and a five-unit tape library for backups. The disk tray will increase the storage capacity of the EML, and provides larger, faster disks for improved I/O as well as RAID performance and fail-safe capability. The new removable media technology will remain synchronized with the new disk technology. The EML provides a state-of-the-art computational environment for economic research, particularly in compute-intensive methods and the analysis of very large datasets. Extending its disk storage and backup capabilities provides key resources that are urgently needed by applied econometrics faculty investigators and graduate dissertation students.