A policy-driven scheduler for a time-sharing system
Communications of the ACM
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The purpose of a laboratory automation system is to improve the quality and quantity of the work of the scientists who use it. An organization such as General Electric Corporate Research and Development presents a large number of problems which are capable of being solved by laboratory automation. We wish to discuss a system which was developed to solve many of these problems. We will first describe the computer facilities which are a part of the system. Next, we will describe some of the data communications equipment which has been developed to interface individual experiments to these computer facilities. Finally, we will describe three applications which illustrate the use of the laboratory automation system.