Practical Experiences

Proceedings Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems. Toward Distributed Storage and Data Management Systems Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI:10.1109/MASS.1994.373044

W. Sell

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Abstract

The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) is a high-energy particle physics laboratory based at a site shared between France and Switzerland, near Geneva. Altogether, an average of 4,000 staff and visitors are on site, using a lot of data currently about 80 terabytes (Tbytes) and a lot of computing power currently about 5,000 workstations of many types. Efforts have been made by CERN’s Computing and Networks Division (CN) to contain the growth in manpower requirements for manipulating data on tapes and cartridges. Initially, this involved making the manual arrangements as efficient as possible, but recent efforts have been directed toward trying to make use of automatic libraries. Beginning with a large protoope Haushahn system, we have now installed two IBM 3495 L50s, an Exabyte 120, an IGM-ATL, and an IBM 3494. Each of these machines has had both excellent and deplorable features, and each has provoked serious problems when exposed to the user community. Not all of these difficulties were expected, and some seem unlikely to be remedied. However, some may be avoidable.

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欧洲粒子物理实验室(CERN)是一个高能粒子物理实验室，位于日内瓦附近法国和瑞士共用的一个地点。总共平均有4000名工作人员和访客在现场，使用大量数据(目前约为80tb)和大量计算能力(目前约为5000台不同类型的工作站)。欧洲核子研究中心(CERN)的计算和网络部门(CN)已经做出了努力，以控制操作磁带和磁带上数据的人力需求的增长。最初，这涉及使手工安排尽可能有效，但最近的努力已指向尝试使用自动库。从一个大型的Haushahn系统原型开始，我们现在已经安装了两台IBM 3495 l50、一台Exabyte 120、一台IGM-ATL和一台IBM 3494。这些机器既有优秀的功能，也有糟糕的功能，并且在向用户社区公开时都引发了严重的问题。并非所有这些困难都在预料之中，有些似乎不太可能得到补救。然而，有些是可以避免的。

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