Center Facilities

The SESRC is committed to staying abreast of emerging technologies and their application to social and economic research. Accordingly, we provide our staff with the latest computer hardware and software to facilitate their work.

Our facilities are currently located on the first floor of Wilson Hall at Washington State University and in Suite F at the University Research Park. Each location is equipped with two high-end network servers designed to support over 300 simultaneous users. Through physically separated, our two offices are able to communicate effectively and efficiently by taking full advantage of our integrated center Intranet.

The Research Park office is the location for the SESRC's data collection unit. A total of four full-time personnel (a data collection managers, 2 survey supervisors, and 1 network administrator), manage an average of 100-200 student interviewers. We currently have 60 fully functional interviewing stations. The CATI system currently in use is Interviewer by Voxco. Our network infrastructure for all interviewer workstations supports switched ethernet, while both NT servers connect via T100 lines. Additionally, we have several commercial level printers that are designed to support large-scale print jobs and the SESRC's state-of-the-art mail surveys.

The Wilson Hall location is the primary headquarters for our administrative, project management, and data management units. In addition to the staff resources described above, the center has a training facility for both staff and interviewer training needs. The Wilson Training center contains 12 workstations running Windows NT and used to offer in-house trainings on various software programs.

Wilson Hall Facility Summary

Network Infrastructure:

• Three T100 server connections
• Workstations use switched and shared 10base-T

Hardware:

File Servers:

• Dual 1.7ghz Pentium IV Xeon
• 200GB Disk Storage (Raid 0+1)
• 1 GB RAM

Web Server:

• Dual 3.06ghz Pentium IV Xeon
• 150GB SCSI Disk Storage (Raid 10)
• 2 GB RAM

Database Server:

• Dual 3.06ghz Pentium IV Xeon
• 185GB SCSI Disk Storage (Raid 10)
• 4 GB RAM

 

Software:

• Windows2003 Server
• IIS 6
• SQL Server 2000
• MS Office 2000
• Frontpage
• Miscellaneous Utilities

Research Park Facility Summary

Network Infrastructure:

• Two T100 server connections
• Workstations use switched and shared 10base-T

Hardware:

File Server:

• Dual 1ghz Pentium II
• 70GB SCSI Disk Storage (Raid 1)
• 1 GB RAM

Backup Server:

• Pentium II 400mhz
• 36GB SCSI Disk Storage
• 256 MB RAM

Software:

• Windows NT Server
• Office2000
• Corel Suite
• Frontpage2000
• Miscellaneous Utilities