A centralized, hierarchically structured computer system for chemical research and analytical instrumentation

✍ Scribed by Engelbert Ziegler

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 931 KB
• Volume: 147
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2670
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-2670(83)80074-9

✦ Synopsis

An hierarchically structured, centralized computer system, replacing an obsolete central DECsystem-10, can be used for all the computational tasks in chemical research, as well as for real-time data acquisition and evaluation for numerous analytical instruments, required in a large Institute. In this hierarchical system, the real-time tasks are done by local minicomputer satellites that are tailored to special requirements in the laboratories. All higher-level data processing and data storage demands are covered by the central system, consisting of two VAX1 l/7 80 computers, to which all satellites as well as all user terminals are connected. The design criteria are described as well as some of the software packages developed for this system.