The Fermilab experience: Integration of UNIX systems in a HEP computing environment

Conference · Fri Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5771041

Pabrai, U

There is an increased emphasis within organizations to migrate to a distributed computing environment. Among the factors responsible for this migration are: (1) a proliferation of high performance systems based on processors such as the Intel 80{times}86, Motorola 680{times}0, RISC architecture CPU's such as MIPS R{times}000, Sun SPARC, Motorola 88000 and Intel 860 series; (2) a significant reduction in hardware costs; (3) configuration based on existing local area network technology; and (4) the same (to a large extent) operating system on all platforms. A characteristic of distributed computing is that communication takes the form of request-reply pairs. This is also referred to as the client-server model. The client-server model is rapidly growing in popularity and in many scientific and engineering environments is replacing transaction-based and mainframe systems. Over the last few years, Fermilab has been in the process of migrating to a client-server model of computing.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 5771041
• Report Number(s): FNAL/C-91/84; CONF-910373--2; ON: DE91011980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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