Instrumentation for Research in Computionally-Intensive Econometric Methods

在美国国家科学基金会的部分支持下，加州大学伯克利分校将升级其计量经济学实验室科学工作站设施（EML/SWF）。它的UNIX网络建立于1991年，旨在支持经济学中计算密集型方法的研究和教学，以及使用这些方法的应用研究。考虑到它所支持的软件的数量和复杂性、许多经济学数据库的非常大的规模和用户的数量，目前的系统是不充分的，容易出现故障。根据这笔赠款，将升级三台计算服务器和一台文件服务器。磁盘将被添加为计划中的网络地鼠服务器的免费存储空间，用于存储计量经济学软件和数据。EML/SWF是一个由从事计算机密集型方法研究的全球计量经济学家网络使用的设施。此外，伯克利大学经济学教授的34名成员正在进行22个有组织的研究项目，伯克利大学的其他经济学家需要该设施支持的专门软件。EML/SWF为算法开发和计量经济学应用提供了广泛的软件，在为经济研究设计的框架中，特别是在计算机密集型方法中。该设施还支持经济学系研究生课程的教学。除了一系列四个学期的计量经济学课程外，宏观经济学、劳动经济学和公共财政课程也利用该设施教授技术并让学生接触大型经济数据集。大约265名研究生使用EML/SWF进行课程作业和论文研究。因此，升级将对研究和教学产生重大的积极影响。

With partial support from the National Science Foundation, the University of California, Berkeley will upgrade its Econometrics Laboratory Scientific Workstation Facility (EML/SWF). Its UNIX network was established in 1991 and designed to support research and instruction in computationally intensive methods in economics, as well as applied research using these methods. Given the number and complexity of the software it supports, the very large size of many economics data bases and the number of users, the present system in inadequate and prone to failure. Under this grant, three compute servers and one file server will be upgraded. Disks will be added that free storage for a planned network gopher server for econometric software and data. The EML/SWF is a facility used by a worldwide network of econometricians who are engaged in research on computer-intensive methods. In addition, the facility is used by 34 members of the Berkeley economics faculty who are conducting 22 organized research projects, and by other economists at Berkeley who need specialized software the facility supports. The EML/SWF provides a broad spectrum of software for algorithm development and econometric applications, in a framework designed for economic research, particularly in computer intensive methods. The facility also supports instruction in the graduate program of the Department of Economics. In addition to a sequence of four semester-long econometrics courses, courses in macroeconomics, labor economics and public finance use the facility to teach technique and to expose students to large economic data sets. Approximately 265 graduate students use the EML/SWF for course work and dissertation research. The upgrade therefore will have a significant positive impact on both research and teaching.