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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Hello users and experts:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I am attempting to create a Siena object with my 3-wave matrices and it’s taking an enormous amount of memory. I have three matrices of size 555x555 and I have attempted the following command to create Siena objects for my dependent variables:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>caucuses<-sienaNet(array(c(cauc109.net, cauc110.net, cauc111.net), dim=c(555, 555, 3)))<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I have been running this on a virtual “supercomputer”: Dell PowerEdge with Dual Intel X5650 Six Core Processors and 24 GM Memory. The datafile is 10MB and the command has been running for 15 hours now (so far no errors).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Shall I continue to let it run? Have I done something wrong? I shudder to think what will happen when I try to estimate a model!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thanks for your advice,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Jennifer Victor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>___________________________________________<br>Jennifer Nicoll Victor<br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Political Science<br>University of Pittsburgh<br>4600 Wesley W. Posvar Hall<br>(412) 624-7204<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:jnvictor@pitt.edu"><span style='color:blue'>jnvictor@pitt.edu</span></a><br>Homepage: <a href="http://www.polisci.pitt.edu/person/jennifer-nicoll-victor"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.polisci.pitt.edu/person/jennifer-nicoll-victor</span></a></span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>