IBM SPSS Statistics

Description

From the IBM SPSS website: IBM SPSS Statistics is an integrated family of products that addresses the entire analytical process, from planning to data collection to analysis, reporting and deployment. With more than a dozen fully integrated modules to choose from, you can find the specialized capabilities you need.

Version

22

Authorized Users

CIRCE account holders
RRA account holders
SC account holders

Platforms

CIRCE cluster
RRA cluster
SC cluster

Modules

IBM SPSS Statistics requires the following module file to run:

apps/spss/22

See Modules for more information.

Running IBM SPSS Statistics on CIRCE/SC

The IBM SPSS Statistics user guide is essential to understanding the application and making the most of it. The guide and this page should help you to get started with your simulations. Please refer to the Documentation section for a link to the guide.

Note on CIRCE: Make sure to run your jobs from your $WORK directory!
Note: Scripts are provided as examples only. Your SLURM executables, tools, and options may vary from the example below. For help on submitting jobs to the queue, see our SLURM User’s Guide.

Interactive Mode

Establishing a GUI connection to CIRCE/SC

To use IBM SPSS Statistics, you will need to connect to CIRCE/SC with GUI redirection, either using:

CIRCE/SC Desktop Environment
SSH with X11 redirection
- If connecting from OSX or Linux via SSH, please ensure that you use one of the following commands to properly redirect X11:
  - ```
  [user@localhost ~]$ ssh -X circe.rc.usf.edu
```
  or
- ```
[user@localhost ~]$ ssh -X sc.rc.usf.edu
```

Next, use srun to enter an interactive shell. This example is for 48 hours using 4 cpu cores on 1 node with 8GB of shared memory:

srun --time=48:00:00 --mem=8192 --nodes=1 --cpus-per-task=4 --pty /bin/bash

Once you get dropped into an interactive shell on the execution host, you need to load the SPSS module.

module load apps/spss/22

You should now be able to execute “stats” (graphical mode) from the command line.

Documentation

Home Page, User Guides, and Manuals

SPSS Home Page:
- http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/products/statistics/

More Job Information

See the following for more detailed job submission information:

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs with IBM SPSS Statistics to the IT Help Desk: rc-help@usf.edu