Distributed computing at the European laboratory for particle physics

Author

Williams, David O.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

fYear

1992

Firstpage

427

Abstract

CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, operates experimental facilities generating terabytes per year of data for 6000 particle physicists. CERN´s history of involvement in local and wide area distributed computing is reviewed, and its response to the increasing impact of networked reduced instruction set computer (RISC systems while maintaining high quality services is discussed. These services include a program library, a distributed file, and tape management system, centrally operated RISC) services, data dissemination by satellite, and a distributed hypertext information system. The likely impact of an emerging integrated approach to distributed data analysis for particle physics on the future use of mainframe computers in the discipline is discussed

Keywords

data analysis; hypermedia; local area networks; physics computing; reduced instruction set computing; storage management; wide area networks; CERN; European laboratory for particle physics; RISC; data dissemination; distributed data analysis; distributed file management system; hypertext information system; local area distributed computing; networked reduced instruction set computer; program library; tape management system; wide area distributed computing; Computer aided instruction; Computer networks; Data analysis; Distributed computing; History; Laboratories; Libraries; Management information systems; Reduced instruction set computing; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '92. ''Technology Enabling Tomorrow : Computers, Communications and Automation towards the 21st Century.' 1992 IEEE Region 10 International Conference.

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0849-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1992.271909

Filename

271909