WORKING GROUP MEETING - 29 JULY 1976

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000300310010-6
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 6, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR Bus Communications 'Working Group
SUBJECT: Working Group Meeting - 29 July 1976
STATINTL CRS .
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1. On 29 July 1976 the Bus Communications Working Group
met to discuss the following tonics:
a. D/OC, D/ODP Views on Bus Communications, Project -
On 27 July 1976, briefed the Directors of
Communications, Data Processing, and Research F, Develop-
ment on the status of the ORI) Bus Communications project.
Then he presented a. management plan for implementation
of a testbecl bus system. During the ensuing discussion,
D/OC stated his position, which is believed to be as
follows: the current and projected growth of the
communications requirements for general-purpose time-
sharing and computing for general-purpose time--sharing and
computing by OUP can be satisfied by conventional tech-
nology. Any system based on newer technology, such as a
cable-based buy, system, should be designed around the
primary application, in this case believed to be SAFE.
The respons.ihi-1_it:y for such design and development should
reside in the SAFE program office. 0C would administor
and maintain the designed system. If properly designed,
the COnInlUIliCtlt- ion system should he capable of sc t i Eying
the other requi rcment:s .
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In light of the OC position, ORD plans to meet with SAFE
management to discuss REID support of a SAM: communications
system.
STATINTL b. Status of OC~Wa.ta Requirements Study -
STATINTL
has isciisse the current grid
STATINTL situation with
and has decided
to it a contract c uring the to study the current
Headquarters grid. The study will attempt to quantify
the current traffic load on the grid and how much more
traffic the grid is capable of handling. It will also
address the question of when overflow of grid capacity
is anticipated and will take into consideration any
modifications to the current system to handle higher
loads .
STATINTL C. Status of' ORD Terminal/Corputer Bus Study -
STATINTL re ported on the status o E t}1e ORI) contract
with The first task of analyzing the trade-
off of various contention alternatives is completed,
and the report is due shortly. The primary conclusion
of this task is that the use, of adaptive re-transmission
STATINTL delay should si nl ficant.ly improve performance on a.
digital bus. is currently looking at tech control
of the bus and has begun design work on the content ion
and cluster bus interface units (BIU). The complete
functional specifications of these BIU's should be avai.l-
able on 1 October 197().
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cl. Status of SAP}: Communications Design - STATINTL
reported t-TIat tlio r-c i s no \I E communa cat ions design ye
since the SAFE project has only recently received funding
approval. Concerning they (1-raFt RFP for a communications
study which - had put together a Few Months ago, he has
not had a chance to review it recently. However, he
believes tllra.t: -has accomplished al> >roxijnatel y half STATINTL
of the tasking, listed in that draft, stated that
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SUBJECT: Working Group Meeting - 29 July 1976
e. Status of and ISG Requirements for
Remo Document ]) play - reportedv that STATINTL
-ISIn the ~rocess o i.rm_Lng up requirements.
Finances dictate the extent to which the requirements
are satisfied. For example, the number of stations in
the system depend a lot on individual terminal capability.
Currently his thinking is that approximately 50-60 remote
terminal locations seem to be appropriate. After establishing
the requirements for- he will be able to levy more
precise re 1,11r -a C. In response to a question
from stated that remote document
display includes either hard copy or soft. copy terminals
at this point. volunteered to provide a 10-12
page write-up on the state of hard copy remote document
display technology stated that
there probably will be no -irm requirements for wideband
communications from ISG in the next 3-5 years. The remote
document viewing capability is currently being looked
at for a post-1.980 time frame by ISG.
f. Status of ORD Display Resolution Study MTINTL
~
e'()or1 e i on t~1e status 0 1..Tle q
il.splay rc solution
study bein7 erform d INTL
n early CY 76 the Bus Working
Group agreed that display resolution was an extremely
critical parameter affecting much of the document viewing
system design. M was retained to perform this work
and on 9 June presented their cxrerimental plan to
approved unanimously and instruction given tol= ,TATINTL
proceed with the experiment. Study 1 which will begin
in early September will fix a number of the display para-
meters. Study 2 will. address the display resolution
problem directly. Consideration is being given to doing
Study 2 within Ilcadqua.rters Bldg. This will cost approxi.-
matoly $2,500 more, will require a room approximately.
1.0 x 10, and will. require the services of 48 analyr1TATINTL
for approximatcly 1. hour each. will arrnI A R 1L
the room and. the analyst subject .