SSC offers two remote access services to faculty and students in the Social Sciences division. Remote access allows a user to access software and data sets from their home, office, or anywhere with a network connection. All comments, questions, problems, or feedback should be directed to remote@ssc.ucla.edu. An FAQ about Remote Desktop can be found here.

Zambezi is a new remote server for graduate students and faculty. Zambezi is available at all times, except for down time for upgrades, and patches. Zambezi has a variety of software that is available at the Social Sciences Computing labs, with an emphasis on statistical applications. Zambezi is intended for software usage on enormous data sets that take long periods of time to compute. Zambezi users are given a limited amount of space for data storage. Accounts are set to expire one year after creation, unless otherwise stated. To set up an account, please email remote@ssc.ucla.edu. Please include your Student ID number, your full name, and which department you are associated with. Please clearly state that you are interested in a Zambezi account. Some of the software on Zambezi can be viewed on our software page.

AfterHours allows anyone with a Social Sciences Computing lab account to remote into the computer labs during off-hours. Please visit http://access.labs.sscnet.ucla.edu for a more detailed description of AfterHours. The UCLA VPN client is necessary for AfterHours. To qualify for Remote Access, please create an account at the Social Sciences Computing front desk located at 2041 Public Policy and email remote@ssc.ucla.edu. Please include your full name, your Student ID number, and which dept you are associated with. Please clearly state that you are interested in an AfterHours account. A complete list of software available during AfterHours can be found on our software page.