Overview

The Social Science Computing Core team oversees the Social Science Computing Core services, provided in collaboration with the Systems Engineering & Operations (SEO) team, which are used by researchers across the University. The SSCC’s computing resources include interactive Windows and Linux compute clusters, Slurm clusters for large-scale CPU and GPU computing, and a high-security environment for working with sensitive and restricted data. The SSCC team also directly supports the SSCC’s customers, including both research computing facilitation and statistical consulting.

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What We Do

• Oversee SSCC services: ensure SSCC meets the research computing needs of its customers at an affordable cost.
• Act as a bridge between researchers and technical staff: help SEO’s system engineers understand researchers’ challenges, and help researchers understand how to use the available computing resources efficiently.
• Help researchers use the SSCC’s compute clusters.
• Provide statistical consulting.
• Teach workshops on statistical software, data wrangling skills, and applied statistics.
• Create and maintain the SSCC Knowledge Base, especially the Statistics and Data Science Knowledge Base.

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Our Team

If you have questions about the SSCC or the services we provide, email helpdesk@ssc.wisc.edu