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1. ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER COMPUTER UPGRADE and RATE CHANGES On December 30 1983 SPCC s IBM 4341 central processor was upgraded from a model Ll to a M12 The upgrade consisted mainly of two significant improvements a an 80 increase in processing power cycle time and b an increase of 4 megabytes million of memory bringing the system total to 8 megabytes Over the weekend of January lst the new system was benchmarked against its predeces sor Comparative performance checks were done on the three operating systems DOS VSE MUSIC and CMS includes SAS After summarizing findings it was ascer tained that the central processor performance had on an average improved slightly more than more 80 across the board Hence the new rate of 9 00 per minute for central processing was established This new rate assures that computing will not increase for users as a result of the system upgrade Through the integration of virtual and overhead central processor time into our charging algorithm a further improvement has been made for CMS users Here users will experience an approximate 20 improvment on cost performance more so on pro ducts such as NOMAD PROFS and SCRIPT Addtional Rate Changes l Differential Off Hour RAteS tati ewe we wk mu weuio dia Effective January 1 1984 SPCC instituted differential off hour rates for work done outside the prime shift Computer processing performed after 5 00 pm daily Monday thru Friday and2. 3 50 A SAS handout filled with examples and illus trations showing how to use the DATA step with its many statements and many Proc steps 104 pages SAS Procedures Handout 75 A list of the SAS procedures with a brief description of the capability and use of each 15 pages MUSIC SCRIPT Manual 8 00 An introduction to the MUSIC operating sys tem and to SCRIPT 126 pages MUSIC Primer 5 00 An introductory guide to assist users of the MUSIC system 129 pages SPCC Facility Introduction An introduction to the St Paul Computer Facility 22 pages no charge CS Quick Reference Guide 25 A brief summary list of many frequently used CMS and XELIT commands 3 pages Beginner s Guide to CMS 2 00 An introduction to CMS for users who are con Full SCreen necting to the IBM system from a video dis play terminal There are sample terminal SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 9 ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER sessions along with explanations of the dis plays 59 pages Beginner s Guide to OMS 1 00 An introduction to CMS for users who are con Line at a Time necting to the IBM system from a DEC Writer Hazeltine Data Media or other Line at a Time terminal 31 pages CMS Reference Guide A soun to be released guide to using CMS at SPCC This covers more material and in slightly greater depth than the Beginner s Guides Price not yet determined Guide to using the IBM PC 75 A guide to creating a bootable disket
3. a comprehensive statistical package available on the IBM 4341 computer at SPCC In addition to sta tistics SAS provides sottware tools for data storage and retrieval report writing general programming and graphics Beginning this quarter a computer based training package for SAS will be part of the course Users not attending the short course may also have access to this selt study course Check with Michele Burlew to obtain more information on its use or to obtain the handout Using CBT for SAS The MUSIC course will cover the McGill University System for Interactive Computing an interactive operating system called MUSIC The MUSIC operating system allows one to edit and save files submit batch jobs or run jobs interactively The CMS course will introduce the Conversational Monitor System an operating system that allows one to edit and save files submit batch jobs and run jobs interactive ly The CMS editor XEDIT offers many more options and capabilities than the editor for MUSIC SAS and NOMAD a new data base management system may be accessed inter actively through CMS The NOMAD demo introduces a Data Base Management System now available at SPCC NOMAD is a fourth generation language which may be used for data management retrievals application programming report writing and graphics All courses will be otfered on the St Paul campus The short course schedule for the winter quarter is as follows SHORT COURSE NAME D
4. bytes month This rate then holds true again until the second level ceiling is reached etc see table below Note For accounting purposes disk space differential rate eligibility will be based on USERID not account number Disk Space Differential Rate Table Illustration applying new rates Differential Megabyte to various levels of disk space Category Rate utiliziation First 10 Megabytes 18 00 A USERID having 25 megabytes of Next 15 Megabytes 14 00 disk space would be charged 180 Next 25 Megabytes 10 00 for the first 10 megabytes and Next 50 Megabytes 6 00 210 for the next 15 megabytes gt 100 Megabytes 3 00 total charged would be 390 3 CMS Archiving Rates ccccreceres Cuesta Caia ad Ega EA ee dae E SPCC s CMS archiving rates have now been set and users taking advantag ot this facility will be charged 3 00 per megabyte or portion thereof stored per month Note This rate is a 83 reduction to the standard active disk space rate SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 2 ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER WINTER QUARTER SHORT COURSES The St Paul Computer Center will be offering the short courses shown below during the winter quarter The User Orientation presentation introduces new and prospec tive users to the SPCC facility Following a brief description of the hardware and software available at SPCC a short tour of the computer center will be given The SAS course will cover the Statistical Analysis System SAS
5. all Saturday processing will be eligible for these reduced rates Users doing their processing during these off hours will receive a 25 reduction on three billable components Central Processor Time High Speed Input Output disk and tape and Connect Time Oft hour differential rates are shown below University Accounts New Rate New Rate Standard Off Hour Computer Resource Charge Charge Central Processor 9 00 6 75 Disk Tape I O 0012 0009 Connect Time 2 00 1 50 SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 1 pm nt ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER Non University Accounts New Rate New Rate Standard Off Hour Computer Resource Charge Charge Central Processor 12 00 9 00 Disk Tape 1 0 0016 0012 Connect Time 2 75 2 00 SPCC plans on installing a Batch Monitor within the next few weeks to facilitate prime time routing of batch work for off hour scheduled processing Lock for an announcement regarding this on the CMS and MUSIC news facilities 2 Differential Disk Storage RateS see cesevcees see eeeceee Effective January 1 1984 SPCC instituted ditterential disk space raies which are especially applicable to large disk space users Our standard disk storage charge as you may recall is 000018 byte month 18 00 million bytes month This rate still holds true for disk space utilization up to the established first level ceiling of 10 megabytes then the rate is decreased to 14 00 million
6. ATE TIME User Orientation Feb 9 Th 3 00 5 00 Introduction to CMS Feb 13 15 M W 3 00 5 15 Introduction to MUSIC Feb 14 16 T Th 3 00 5 15 SAS Statistical Analysis System Feb 20 22 24 M W F 3 00 5 15 Introduction to CMS Feb 28 Mar 1 T Th 3 00 5 15 Introduction to MUSIC Feb 29 Mar 2 W F 3 00 5 15 SAS Statistical Analysis System Mar 5 7 9 M W F 3 00 5 15 Introduction to NOMAD By arrangement The User Orientation will be held in B35 COB St Paul Campus with no registration required To register for the other courses shown above please obtain and complete SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 3 pen a i A RR ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER pi a ma a a a e a short course registration form from SPCC 373 0987 50 Coffey Hall and return it to the main office 50 Coffey Hall prior to the start of the class Most short courses have a modest fee associated with them and require full payment before the class begins Sorry no refunds are made after the class begins If you have questions about short courses their cost or registration please call Mel Sauve or Diane Suski 373 0987 If you have a group of 6 or more people interested in any of the short courses SPCC can schedule a class just for your group Please contact Mel Sauve at 373 0987 to make the necessary arrangements SAS NOTES SAS Disk Migration The major change in disk space utilization announced in our last newsletter has been delayed The change will take plac
7. S library TREE a new procedure that prints tree diagrams of hierarchical clusterings CLUSTER has been rewritten to use Ward s method the centroid method or the average linkage on squared Euclidean distances method Two of these methods can take far less space and CPU time to run than the method implemented in SAS79 MATRIX has several new functions Graphics Users who own an IBM FC with the asyncronous communications interface the color graphics interface and a color monitor may use their PC as a graphics terminal with SAS 82 3 The SAS Intitute has distributed a group of BASICA programs which will turn the IBM PC into a graphics terminal in either high or medium resolution graph ics modes Images may be saved on disk and replayed at a later time The device drivers make good use of the higher level graphics capabilities of BASICA line circle paint etc This results in short data transmission time for most images More detailed written information will become available later Users who would like to try this feature now should ask for information at the help desk COMPUTER BASED TRAINING NOW AVAILABLE FOR SAS In February St Paul Computer Center is installing the CRWTH computer based train ing package for SAS This is a self study course that lets you review the fundamen tals of SAS and learn some of its more advanced features This is done by using a computer based training CBT system With the CBT system you are instructed
8. e during winter quarter Users will be contacted by SPCC staff when it is time to migrate SAS 82 3 SAS 82 3 has been instalied at SPCC and will be available as the FUTURE version of SAS by the time this newsletter is distributed In mid February SAS 79 6 will became the past version and SAS 82 3 will become the current version As we mentioned in the last newsletter the documentation for the new version is SAS User s Guide Basics 1982 Edition SAS User s Guide Statistics 1982 Edition Some of the new procedures documented in SAS User s Guide Basics are APPEND adds observations to the end of a SAS data set CALENDAR produces summary and schedule calendars FORMS prints labels and forms supplemental procedure added to The SAS library TABULATE produces descriptive statistics in tabular form TRANSPOSE transposes a SAS data set pin a nr a a cerne SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 4 BT PAUL COMPUTER CENTER Some of the new features documented in SAS User s Guide Statistics are REG a new procedure for general purpose regression including diagnostics RSREG a new procedure for response surface regression supplemental procedure added to the SAS library GLM and ANOVA have many new means comparisons methods PRINCOMP a new procedure for principal components analysis supplemental procedure added to the SAS library STEPDISC a new procedure for stepwise discriminant analysis supplemental procedure added to the SA
9. in SAS You will be asked questions to both reinforce the instruction and to give you SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 5 an att poe teem a the hands on teel of using SAS Much of the course involves writing SAS state ments and programs Information presentation under the CBT system is given on the terminal You log on to the computer and invoke the CBT system when you have time available for self study You are presented with narrative text on the terminal screen or hard copy terminal and when satisfied that you have understood the topic you can move ahead to the next topic The course is intended primarily for end users non data processing people who will be doing their om statistical analysis and or report writing The length of the course will depend upon whether you are already familiar with SAS and can skip the introductory sessions and how deeply you need to go into SAS Many of the later sessions are elective depending on your individual reeds Use of the CBT system for SAS will be the basis of the Center s SAS short course offering However you do not need to attend the short course to use it Check with Michele Burlew to obtain more information on its use or to obtain the handout Using Computer Based Training for SAS NOMAD NEWS As we announced in the last newsletter NOMAD is a comprehensive database management and reporting language now available at SPCC under the CMS timesharing system Since its installat
10. ion numerous applications large and small have been imple mented Users indicate that they are finding NOMAD easy to learn and use NOMAD offers many time saving tools that generate NOMAD procedures for the program mer Some of the procedure generating tools are MAKEDUMP MAKELOAD Generates procedures to dump and load databases to and from external files MAKEFORM Allows interactive building of form descriptions MAKEM Generates screen driven update procedures MAKEUP Generates non screen interactive maintenance procedures CHOICE Used in a procedure to produce screens to choose among various proce dures to run These tools along with others are documented in the MOMAD2 Tools Manual which is available in Room 50 Coffey Hall for 3 00 aeee mma m mm SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 6 a ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER There is also a NOMAD2 Tutorial available for the beginning NOMAD user The user is lead through sample terminal sessions using an education database and also in creat ing a new database This document introduces the LIST command and the basic data base management commands in an easy to follow interactive style PROFS PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SYSTEM Although PROFS has been available to a number ot deparments for some time SPCC has just installed the newest release and is now making it available to its entire clientele To gain access to the PROFS software use the GET command as tollows get pro
11. l or common regressions to be fitted 10 Through transformations one can produce the right error structure in the data and yet control the addivity of fitted effects e VPNPY P Other Facilities l Input of Data Fix or free format Data may be entered inter actively or my be previously stored 2 Calculations Arithmetic operations on vectors and scalars suffices functions include pseudo random number generator standard arithmetic functions and relational operators sorting SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 8 et A e e e BT PAUL COMPUTER CENTER 3 Scatter Plotting Up to nine variates simulateously automatic scaling selection of subsets 4 Program control Definition and use ot macros as named blocks of instructions use ot macros in looping and branching argument substitution in macros 5 Diagnostics Extensive internal checks for faults full diagnosis and suggested remedies To acquaint the user with GLIM and its operational use the following is available Introductory Notes on GLIM contains reference card 3 50 The GLIM System User Manual 16 00 CMS Online Help Facility Type HELP UM GLIM N C SPCC PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS The following documentation is available from SPCC Publication Cost Description MUSIC General User s 50 A xeroxed version of the MUSIC SYSTEM Refer Reference Card ence card containing a brief description of the MUSIC commands 5 pages SAS Seminar Handout
12. nic however more difficult problems will be referred to an Applied Statistics faculty member SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 10 ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER The hours of the Statistical Clinic for Fall Quarter 1983 are Monday 8 00 5 00 Tuesday 8 00 3 30 Wednesday 8 00 5 00 Thursday 8 00 3 30 Friday 8 00 5 00 Room 125g COB Phone 376 3845 ACCESS TO FACILITIES ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER SPCC hours locations and telephone numbers Main Office 90 Cottey Hall 373 0987 6 00 am 4 30 pm Users koom and 90 Cotfey Hall 7 00 am 10 00 pm M F and Computer Hours 1 90 Coffey Hall 8 00 am 4 00 pm Sat Help Line and Desk 90 Coffey Hall 376 4602 10 00 am 12 00 pm 1 00 pm 4 00 pm Data Entry North Hall 376 9222 8 00 am 4 30 pm Interactive Dialup Number 376 5820 1 After hour and Saturday access to the Center may be achieved by using the tunnel passageway from the Student Center MERITSS SYSTEM CONNECTION TO SPCC Users can now gain access to the IBM 4341 computer system at SPCC through the MER ITSS System There are now six ports dedicated to this type of communications traf fic Those wishing to utilize this type of access can obtain the handout named Using SPCC s IBM Computer from the MERITSS System from our main office 1 page no charge CLASSROOM OFFICE BUILDING INTERACTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL LAB HOURS Doors Unlocked Doors Locked Monday Friday 8 00 am 10 00 pm Saturday 9 00 am 1 00 pm Sho
13. o previous knowledge of computers to productively use To acquaint the user with PROFS and its operational use the following manuals are available Getting Started with PROFS SH20 5602 13 50 Using PROFS SH20 5604 28 00 GIM New Statistical Package Installed Installed recently GLIM Generalized Linear Interactive Modeling is a product dis tributed by the Royal Statistical Society in Oxford England and is widely used throughout the world GLIM is a program designed to facilitate the fitting of gen eralized linear models It contains routines for specifying and fitting desired models reading data transforming data and displaying results through listings and graphic diagrams GLIM is available under CMS in botn interactive and batch modes Model Fitting Facilities l Linear regression with quantitative independent variates 2 Fitting linear models with factors and covariates 3 Fitting and testing loglinear or linear models for discrete data including binomial or multinomial data and contingency tables with responses and or factors Linear models on a logit scale for multiway tables of proportions Probit analysis of dose response curves surfaces Estimation of variance components from independent mean squares Inverse polynomial response surfaces with gamma errors Models for survival data based on the exponential distribution Permits mixed quantitative qualitative terms in linear models to enable separate paralle
14. te with as a terminal to the IBM 4341 the programs necessary to use the IBM PC asa terminal to the 4341 Uploading and down loading files is also discussed 19 pages NOMAD Tutorial Terminal 2 00 An easy to read and follow example oriented Session Films text of the basic NOMAD commands for report ing and database creation 39 pages VWM SP Archival Storage 2 00 Provides an introduction to the ARCHIVE sys Subsystem User s Guide tem available under CMS as well as document ing all of the commands and options A must for serious users of the ARCHIVE system 27 pages For a complete list of the publications that are available see the SPCC Facility Introduction STATISTICAL CLINIC The Statistical Center provides statistical consulting to researchers at the Univer sity of Minnesota The services of the Center are available to the University com munity generally without charge Assistance on appropriate experimental designs and methods data analysis and the interpretation of results are part of the mis sion of the Center The Statistical Clinic located in room 125g Classroom Office Building on the St Paul Campus is staffed by graduate students of the School of Statistics and super vised by faculty members of the Applied Statistics Department It is intended to provide an initial contact between the Center and students with research problems Many statistical problems can be handled completely by the personnel in the Cli
15. ts PRUFS provides a comprehensive and easy to use set of office automation functions for the executive professional and secretary PROFS is an Electronic Mail facility and much more Froma single terminal you can obtain and distribute information with only a few key strokes Other facilities of PROFS allow you to manage your most valuable resource your time PROFS Highlights 1 SENDING MESSAGES AND NOTES Used to send short messages and notes to other PROFS users 2 REVIEWING IN BASKET INCOMING MAIL Used to read and handle your incoming mail electronic correspond ence received via PROFS 3 SCHEDULE APPOINTMENTS Used to maintain your personal calendar You may also view and or maintain the calendar of other PROFS users when authorized to do so May also be used for room scheduling 4 SETTING REMINDERS Used as an automatic facility to remind you about upcoming meetings appointments etc s 5 DOCUMENT PREPARATION Used to create formal documents memos and letters and to send them to other PROFS users 6 SEARCH AND RETRIEVE DOCUMENTS Used to find and retrieve documents which you sent or received from other PROFS users SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 7 ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER 7 DOCUMENT PREPARATION ALDS Has spelling checks table of contents facility and a number of other composition aids 8 EXTENSIVE HELP FACILITY PROFS has an extensive HELP facility built in making it easy for a user with n
16. uld you be the last person out of the Lab during the hours shown above please leave the doors unlocked SPCC personnel are responsible for locking doors at the designated times Thank you SPCC January 1984 Newsletter Page 11 ST PAUL COMPUTER CENTER A ge January 1984 Newsletter
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