Aviva Greenman, Head
The Computing Center (WICC) both supports and supplies computing and networking expertise at the Weizmann Institute. It provides system support for workstations and personal computers (PC and Macintosh) throughout the Weizmann campus and is responsible for connecting these computers to the campus-wide network, which, in turn, is connected to country wide and international links. The WICC also provides general purpose and specialized computing facilities for the scientific and administrative departments as well as centralized standards- based mail servers.
Major energy was expended on the Year 2000 readiness program,. and as all other institutions which suitably prepared themselves, we had no significant problems.
Security has been addressed in a significant fashion and the results have been satisfying.
We are currently upgrading our major systems to High Availability status, by installing redundant auto fail-over systems. This will not only increase the reliability of our systems, but will also decrease scheduled maintenance time, as each individual server can be brought down while the alternate server carries the load.
The current campus network infrastructure is designed to absorb future network-intensive applications. The backbone of the campus is based on full mesh 622Mb ATM technology. The edge devices (private computers) are able to communicate in a 100Mb switched environment.
The IBM Mainframe, which today hosts the administrative computing applications is a 9672-R14 with 512 of memory and 113GB of disk space.
A centralized file server system is available for the UNIX environment, with regular backup services both for the centralized servers and individual user machines. There are powerful computer servers available, including a Cray 916 with 12 CPUs and 4 gigabyte of memory, a number of Sun servers, IBM RS6000s, Silicon Graphics, HPs, and DEC Alphas. The Novell Netware servers upgraded to multiprocessor servers with greatly increased disk and memory capacity.
Dial In networking to the Institute communications infrastructure continues to grow and become more versatile. Users with computers at home are now able to connect via dial-up to the Institute network at ever increasing speed , and use all the network services, such as Internet and file server access, from their remote computers.
This file was last modified on 08/15/2004 15:13:50
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