The selection of the computer should always be based on the computational needs. Supercomputer Cray T3E is meant only for programs taking advantage of its special features. Other computing servers are based on the RISC technology and they can be used for mixed load. Experts at CSC help you to choose the most appropriate resource. Computing servers CSC visualization laboratory works with visualization and animation of the scientific research results.
File servers provide common disk space for the whole metacomputer environment.
Two systems with high availability software are used for this purpose. If one server goes down, its services are transferred to the other server. The archive server utilizes an automatic tape robot and a large amount of disk space to long term archiving of files. More information about storing files is available in Chapter File Storage . CSC's database server provides a large collection of scientific databases.