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:
- provide computational and communication resources to carry
out the experimental and theoretical research activities conducted by
SLAC and collaborating institutions,
- provide access, management, and integrity of institutional information
necessary to conducting laboratory activities,
- support cost effective management of laboratory resources through the employment
of automated processes,
- promote direct end-user participation in the management, control, and operation of key communications and
computing resources,
- 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.