General-purpose computer networks and resource sharing in ERDA. Volume 1. Summary, conclusions and recommendations
The investigation focused on heterogeneous networks in which a variety of dissimilar computers and operating systems were interconnected nationwide. Homogeneous networks, such as MFE net and SACNET, were not considered since they could not be used for general purpose resource sharing. Issues of privacy and security are of concern in any network activity. However, consideration of privacy and security of sensitive data arise to a much lesser degree in unclassified scientific research than in areas involving personal or proprietary information. Therefore, the existing mechanisms at individual sites for protecting sensitive data were relied on, and no new protection mechanisms to prevent infringement of privacy and security were attempted. Further development of ERDA networking will need to incorporate additional mechanisms to prevent infringement of privacy. The investigation itself furnishes an excellent example of computational resource sharing through a heterogeneous network. More than twenty persons, representing seven ERDA computing sites, made extensive use of both ERDA and non-ERDA computers in coordinating, compiling, and formatting the data which constitute the bulk of this report. Volume 1 summarizes the entire four year investigation into computational resource sharing through heterogeneous computer networks and makes recommendations for the future.
- Research Organization:
- Energy Research and Development Administration, Washington, DC (USA). Div. of Basic Energy Sciences
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT03-76ER70214
- OSTI ID:
- 5255468
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/70214-T3; ON: DE82005352
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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