The CERN personal computer network
A. De Pace · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1996
have pre-installed the necessary software components possible compatibility with all the existing to store software, home directories or data.All PCs (Win32 applications) while keeping the maximum 160 GB of disk space distributed on 75 volumes used developed for Windows 95 and for Windows NT servers) running Novell Netware offering more than On NICE95', all computers can run 32bit applications from which they get all services.There are 15 central CERN network is called NICE95.All the CERN PCs are connected to the central servers The Microsoft Windows 95 environment on the Win95 Win31 Wmoows 95 Ar CERN 200 400 installing the software locally in their hard disk.600 800 attractive and reliable to discourage end-users from 1000 1200 the network.The service is kept as much as possible software is available to all PCs, always loaded from OS distribution on September 1st application software available to all users and all All users and all PCs are equally managed.The same connected to its internal Local Area Network (LAN) THE BASIC PRINCIPLES CERN has more than 2200 Personal Computers (PC) from the software servers.Paper presented at the "International Workshop on PCs and Particle Accelerator Controls" (PCAPAC '96), October 7 CERN network.The current status and all major evolution strategies are herein described.This paper contains thc description of thc stratcgics taken to manage all the Personal Computers connected to the