NCSA has normally used memory usage to determine how to charge users. AFS - Convex has announced that they have no plans to support Andrew filesystem. We are currently using an NFS-AFS translator. Convex has not announced when this will be ready. Disk performance is slow and needs to be improved.
FDDI performance needs to be improved.
Convex is rewriting the network subsystem. Paging is still very slow. More work needs to be done on the virtual memory system. We need tools to monitor overall memory demands on the system, disk and network performance, to help us better able to configure the system. We also need tools to assess the system resources used by user programs over the lifetime of their execution.