ESTIMATED UTILIZATION OF THE IBM 7090

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03942A000100010016-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 23, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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23 April 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members, CIA Automatic Data Processing
Committee
SUBJECT : Estimated Utilization of the IBM 7090
1. The attached chart shows the estimated utilization
of the IBM 7090 during 1963 and 1964. The chart has been
prepared by the ADP Staff in response to the recent request
of this Committee.
2. I should like to make the following observations
concerning the chart and the computing workload to which
it relates:
a. The Agency has determined that the OSA, DD/R task
will be done. This task can be done only with the
support of a large-scale scientific computer. The
DD/R, the ADP Staff, and this Committee have all con-
curred that the IBM 7090 is the preferred machine.
The degree to which the 7090 is utilized does not,
therefore, affect the basic logic of this acquisition
for the immediate and urgent DD/R task,
b. However, the degree to which the 7090 is utilized
on applications other than the OSA, DD/R task is a
measure of additional gain to the Agency through this
acquisition. The extent of such gain, deriving from
a mandatory acquisition for the OSA task, is, of
course, of very great interest to our Committee.
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co To meet DD/R requirements, the 7090 will be intro-
duced on a crash schedule. Initial utilization of the
7090 will, of course, reflect this fact.
d. There are nonetheless some advantages (apart from
meeting the DD/R schedule for an initial operational
capability) to the Agency in acquiring this machine
at such a precipitous date, it will force us to learn
more rapidly how to use this powerful tool. It will
bring us to in-house production capabilities at an
earlier point. It will permit initiation of 7090 sup-
port to other Agency components, particularly OSi,
DD/R, months in advance of previous ADPS planning.
e. It will be noted that DD/I scientific computing
needs are presently seen to be more extensive, if less
urgent, than those of the DD/R,
f. The ADP Staff predicts that, as a minimum, full-
shift utilization (160 hours/month) will have been
realized at the end of the first year of operation.
(The rate of development of the 7090 workload will
be paced in significant measure by the degree to which
management provides the resources of development; i.e.,
policy, ceiling authorizations, budget, space, etc.)
g. The specific tasks shown in the attached chart are
those presently identified. Some of these will not
endure. Others will "increase and multiply." The
present list is simply an initial surfacing of scien-
tific computing tasks within the Agency. A second
generation of tasks may emerge in time and could grow
to dominate the 7090 workload.
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h. The utilization figures presented in the attached
chart are gross estimates. They derive, nonetheless,
from thoughtful consideration of the information avail-
able on these applications at this point in time. (in
arriving at these figures, the ADP Staff has reduced
by as much as fifty per cent some of the customer office
estimates.)
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PI BEdKER
airman,
CIA Automatic Data Processing Committee
Attachment - Utilization Chart
Distribution: Committee Members
Mr. Borel
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