boetsch@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Ernst Boetsch) (05/25/90)
Hello,
I belong to the scientific staff of the "Leibniz-Rechenzentrum" (LRZ).
The LRZ is a regional computer centre which provides the Bavarian
universities with high performance and vector computing capacities.
The LRZ owns a CRAY YMP 4/432, three CDC CYBER 995, workstations and
PCs.
I am a member of a newly established working group which has to study
the implications of installing
- high performance file servers for our mainframes (most probably it
will be a NFS server),
- high performance (UNIX) multiprocessor (super)computers
and besides also
- (NFS) file servers for workstation clusters and
- high performance/RISC (graphic) workstations.
Therefore, I am very interested in the following topics:
- Experiences made with such systems.
- Benchmarks for such systems (especially file servers) helping us to
select the appropriate vendor.
- Hints on other appropriate news groups (Pardon if the current group is
not appropriate for these topics or they were discussed before).
Our primary point of view is the operation of systems in a computer
centre environment. Therefore, we are mainly dealing with the following
problems:
- Management of the systems.
- Backup of the user data.
- Security of the systems.
- Administration of 6.000 to 10.000 users.
- Charging and billing of computer resources.
- Management of quotas.
- etc.
PLEASE send all comments by electronic mail to
boetsch@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de
or
boetsch%lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de @
{relay.cs.net, unido.uucp}
to save bandwidth.
I will compile a summary if there is sufficient interest.
Thank You for Your cooperation.
Regards
Ernst Boetsch
Ernst Boetsch, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Barer Strasse 21, D-8000 Muenchen 2, West Germany
boetsch@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de Tel.: +49 89 2105 7480
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