JOWSEPH76 15$09122=PDT, 2881 1000000000000
Date? 30 SEP 1976 1309=PDT

Fromt LEDERBERG

Subjects Views on Rutgers=10 application
Tos AMAREL

Dear Sault
TI am sorry 1# you think our advice {8 mon=responsive, He were really
trying to find a route that steod the best chance of getting study=
seation and NIH support; but 1 you disagree, I certainiy donit want
to stand {m the way of whatever effort you want to try, In time
for the sfte visit, we may be able to flesh out much more detail), For

nowr I hope the following will be useful to you as my own expression
of opinion,

Ae can be documented (with more detailed figures to be furnished
seer aytne SUMEX=AIM system has become heavily leadeds to the point of
Ssfaonificant discomfort for many external users, This {8 particularly
discouraging at the point where interesting programs (like CONGEN) have
been developed to a level of real utility, and which then require
fleld=testing to demonstrate thelr full veluer and to Polish them
from the ultimate usera! standpoint,

Within the SUMEX group at Stanford, we are undertaking serj{ous
studies on various technical alternatives for the long-range solutions
to these problems, These are being prepared in time for the submission
of the SUMEX=AIM project renewal application intended for June, 1976,

Dr, Amarel has led one of the largest, moat important and mont
creative of the SUMEX=user groups, and {ts requirements constitute a
etanificant part of the load, The strengthening of the RUTGERS#10
facilitye particularly in a coordinated managerial framework, would
Plaimly be of oreat use to that cluster of AlMeuser projects, and could
also Provide immediate computer=power for a significant qroup of users.
thus lightening the overall! burden, The adoption of compatible onerating
systems s= which {8 mow economical in the light of DEC support of
TOPS=20 == would facilitate that sharing of resources, with particular
merit for east=coast users,

Although computer=network communications remain a viable option
for transcontinental resource sharing, restrictions on the use of
ARPANET, and idiosyncrasies of the available commercial systems, are
Such that many Users would be more comfortable working within feasible
direet=diaj*up range of the serving machine, This {8 particularly
important im elinfeal applications; Jess so in the chemical ones which
are more computer=intensive,

We therefore concur that Dr, Amarel'!s application eould serve
as a Valuable augmentation of SUMEX#AIM NATIONALLY=shared resources,
as we]! as of its primary regional] purposes, We are certainiy wilting
to cooperate to the utmost in assuring a common management framework
for the allocation of the resource, and in the endeavour to sustain
the highest practicable teehnical compatibility Cor complementarity
where this (s indicated.)

Joshua Lederberg