The Savannah River Plant automated office support system network

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6266434

Johnson, A J

The Savannah River Plant (SRP) consists of 13 separate operating or administrative facilities or (areas) spread over 300 square miles of a federal reservation. A facility of this size presents unique difficulties to anyone attempting to provide a comprehensive, high-performance automated office support system (AOSS) network. The goal of the SRP AOSS project is to have each of these workers connected to and using the AOSS computer network by the end of 1988. By mid-1987, SRP was one quarter of the way to completing this goal. The fundamental AOSS strategy for SRP is the integration of personal computers with mid-size ''departmental'' computers located within each plant area with links to the site's mainframe computer systems and offsite databases. This integration is being provided by local area networks (LAN) in each plant area joined via a broadband communications system to form one sitewide internetwork. The SRP site internetwork is used to connect the departmental and mainframe computers together and to provide workstation-to-computer access between plant areas.

• Research Organization: Savannah River Lab., Aiken, SC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 6266434
• Report Number(s): DP-MS-87-94; CONF-8710132-1; ON: DE87014203
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990220* -- Computers
Computerized Models
& Computer Programs-- (1987-1989)
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AUTOMATION
BUILDINGS
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DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
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ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
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MANAGEMENT
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
MICROPROCESSORS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICE BUILDINGS
PERSONAL COMPUTERS
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