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The Importance of the 1940 Census and Cyberenvironments in Historical Research

Discover how the 1940 Census and the use of cyberenvironments have revolutionized historical research, allowing researchers to gather, integrate, and manage complex projects. Explore key components and resources such as the Blue Waters Supercomputer and IPUMS. Understand the limitations of access and usage of Ancestry.com.

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The Importance of the 1940 Census and Cyberenvironments in Historical Research

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  1. The 1940 Census Counts, and Counting is important to Our History Vernon Burton, Clemson University

  2. 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.

  3. Key Components of a Cyberenvironment

  4. http://www.google.com/recaptcha

  5. NCSA Blue Waters Supercomputer 10 petaflops (10 quadrillion calculations every second) 300,000 eight-core 4.0 GHz processors with 32MB on-die L3 cache 1 petabyte memory 10 petabyte harddisk storage 400 gigabits per second Internet connectivity Half an exabyte archival storage $208 million

  6. IPUMS http://www.ipums.org Collect and preserve data and documentation Harmonize data Disseminate the data absolutely free But: sample is too small, no histoire-totale data

  7. Ancestry.com

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