SLAC Computing Services Mission Statement

5 March 1996

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The SLAC Computing Services Group is dedicated to providing leadership and support in computing and communications to the laboratory as a whole, and to physics research, in particular. Major focal activities are to:

  1. provide computational and communication resources to carry out the experimental and theoretical research activities conducted by SLAC and collaborating institutions,
  2. provide access, management, and integrity of institutional information necessary to conducting laboratory activities,
  3. support cost effective management of laboratory resources through the employment of automated processes,
  4. promote direct end-user participation in the management, control, and operation of key communications and computing resources,
  5. position SLAC for the future by pioneering new concepts in the management of communications, systems, and information that will move us smoothly into the 21st century.


Maintained by: Ilse Vinson