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Department Resources and Environment

Biostatistics Facilities

Vanderbilt University offers an ideal setting for its new Department of Biostatistics established in September 2003. Centrally located in Medical Center North adjacent to the Eskind Biomedical Library, the department offers a full array of biostatistical support with an emphasis on establishing long-term collaborative relationships with investigators in accomplishing the research mission of the institution. The Department currently has 28 faculty biostatisticians and 22 staff M.S. biostatisticians, 12 computer systems analysts, and 10 administrative staff members. The department has one division, the Division of Cancer Biostatistics. The department will add a Data Coordinating Center for multi-site clinical trials. See http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu for details about department services and personnel.

Besides operating the Biostatistics Shared Resource for the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, the department operates the Design, Biostatistics, and Research Ethics core for the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research/CTSA, and the Statistics and Methodology Core for the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.

The department occupies approximately 8148 square feet in Medical Center North including a conference room.
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Department Computing and Office Equipment

The department operates 3 server computers:

  1. a custom built system with two Intel Xeon processors, 3 GB of main memory, and 160 GB of mirrored disk storage. This system acts as a file and compute server and runs Apache Web server and MySQL database software. The server's operating system is Debian Linux.
  2. a custom built system with two 64-bit AMD Opteron 250 (2.4 GHz) processors, 16 GB main memory, 250 GB of mirrored disk storage. This system acts as a compute server. Its primary purpose is to run jobs written in the R programming language that need fast processors and/or large amounts of memory. The server's operating system is 64-bit Debian Linux.
  3. a custom built system with two 64-bit AMD Opteron (2.0 GHz) processors, 4 GB main memory, 200 GB of mirrored disk storage. This system acts as a database and web server. The server's operating system is 64-bit Debian Linux.
Files on the servers are backed up on a regular basis using a service provided by Vanderbilt's Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE). ACCRE uses the TiBS enterprise backup system that is produced by Teradactyl, LLC.

Individual Linux workstations are custom built systems produced by Los Alamos Computers and System76, Inc. These systems have 2 GHz AMD Athlon processors, 1 or 2 GB of memory, and between 80 GB and 250 GB of disk space. These computers are configured with Kubuntu Linux and a large selection of open source software. The R package for statistical computing and graphics is installed on all analysts' workstations. The department supports approximately 45 Linux desktop workstations.

There are also a number of Dell desktop computers running the Windows XP operating system. These computers participate in the Vanderbilt active directory domain.

All computers and printers are connected to the Vanderbilt campus network that provides high speed access to e-mail and the Internet.

Printing services are provided by these printers:

  • 2 Xerox Phaser 6250/DP color laser printers
  • 1 Xerox Phaser 6360 color laser printer
The department provides Data Hippo; a web application for secure transfer of data containing confidential information. The department also has fax, scanner, and copy machines and other standard office equipment.

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