Athena

Developed by:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DEC, IBM, USA K. C. Cohen, E. Balkovvich, S. Lerman and R.P. Parmelee

Short Description:
Athena is a large distributed system project designed for educational purpose. It is not so much a distributed operating system as a collection of tools to create a friendly and easily manageable distributed user environment under UNIX. It uses client-ser ver interactions with centralized resource servers, and allows users to do most computation locally, storing results in a network file system. Some of AthenaÕs components are the Hesoid nameserver, the Kerberos authentication system and the Palladium prin ting system.

Model: client/server
Properties: UNIX-compatible
Transparency: access, location Running on: DEC VAXstation II, IBM RT/PC
Date: 1987

References:
K. C. Cohen: "Project Athena: assessing the educational results". Proc. of the ASEE Annual Conference, June 1987, pp. 1279-1282.
S. Lerman: "Project Athena at MIT". EDUCOM Bulletin, 19(4), pp. 5Ð7.
E. Balkovich, S. R. Lerman and R. P. Parmelee: "Computing in Higher Education: The Athena Experience." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 28, No. 11, pp. 1214-1224, November 1985.

FTP: athena-dist.mit.edu /pub