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IBM'S OS/2 RUNNING IN LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY
February 21, 1994
From the 12th to the 27th this month, the XVII Olympic Winter Games
is taking place in a small town in Norway called Lillehammer.
Conducting the games involves 11 sites, 55 events, 2000 athletes,
12,000 employees and volunteers, 8,000 media representatives, 50,000
accredited personnel, 100,000 visitors per day and nearly 2 billion
television viewers.
IBM is the Official Information Systems Partner to the XVII Olympic
Winter Games in Lillehammer 1994. As such we deliver all computer
equipment and systems software, as well as more than 60 man-years of
technical expertise. During the games, there will be 50 IBM Customer
Engineers and 50 Systems Engineers working with the Lillehammer Olympic
Organization Committee (LOOC).
The heart of the Olympic Information System for the XVII Olympic
Winter Games in Lillehammer is an IBM 9121 model 610, running
MVS/ESA. There are more than 3.500 PS/2s in TokenRing LANs connected
to the central ES/9000-system mainly through more than 20 IBM 3745s.
The PS/2s are running OS/2 and to a large extent CICS/OS2. There is
also a large AS/400 in the network, running the internal business
systems for LOOC with gateways to the IBM IIN Network. Touch screen
technology is largely utilized for the PS/2s.
The Olympic Information System covers a broad variety of application
systems necessary to run the Games, including:
Result System, calculating and tabulating all results
based on time and judge's marks, interfacing a large
variety of rather exotic equipment such as timing
equipment, scoreboards, news agencies and live
TV production systems.
Commentator Information System, a highly specialized
information system for TV and radio commentators,
supporting their live broadcasts. The system was
originally developed by IBM Spain for the Barcelona
Games 1992, covering some summer sports. In Lillehammer
it is further developed to cover all winter sports.
Info'94, an information system for the Games, available to all
accredited personnel, 40-50.000 persons.
Electronic Mail, available to all accredited personnel.
The system is based on OfficeVision/MVS which has proven
not only to be extremely reliable and sturdy but also
rich in functions and flexible to meet the particular
needs of an event like the Olympic Games.
Since the typical user is "the first time user" and since
there is no possibility to educate the user beforehand,
the user interface is highly specialized to this situation.
The system also features an interface to a pager system,
allowing messages up to 128 characters to be transmitted
directly to pagers.
Volunteer Management
Managing the education, clothing, housing, feeding and
utilization of some 10.000 volunteers to the Games.
Accreditation
The issuing of accreditation cards for all accredited
personnel is a critical system, we want to avoid having
these personnel standing in long queues.
And a large variety of other applications to serve the
administration in the planning and execution of
the Games and the preceding test events that took place
in the 1st and 4th quarters of 1993.
The first PS/2-based systems were installed already in 1989, the
AS/400 in 1990, and the first ES/9000-based systems has been in
production since 1991.
All the PS/2 systems are running OS/2, a mix of 2.1 and 1.3.
The communication between OS/2 systems is solved using low-level
Netbios protocol and high-level CICS/OS2 transactions across APPC.
Between the mainframe and the OS/2 systems, CICS/OS2 and APPC is used.
Between the OS/2 systems and OEM equipment, asynch comms is used,
mostly programmed using the ACDI interface in CM/2.
The networks are managed from a central control room
using around 20 OS/2 PS2s with IBM Lan Network Manager.
The systems are built at a special 'factory' using a software generation
facility based on IBM Netview Distribution Manager/2 LDU.