Computing at KEK Original Research Article

In 1996 and in 1997, the KEK Computing Research Center installed two large UNIX workgroup cluster systems. Computing and data storage resources are partitioned and allocated to each research group with independent DCE cell administration. Data transfer between different workgroup clusters are established with inter-cell communication. These systems are the largest installation of DCE and DFS which are being used in production, in combination with the hierarchical storage management software on 20-TB and 160-TB tape library mass storage systems.