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ACS "Information" and ACS
"Competitions"
The main objective of these systems
was an improvement in the data
processing services for the Olympic
Games which included the following
activities:
— rapid processing of entries and
listing of competitors, judges, and
officials of national teams;
— compilation of start lists, results
lists, and final results summaries;
— distribution of information on
the progress and results of competitions
to the media, participants, and
guests;
— preparation of data to be included
into official brochures listing
competitors and results in each sport;
— preparation of data to be supplied
at high speed to the international
agencies and to be included into
daily printed journals;
— elimination of the many calculations
that technical officials had to
do manually and timely discovery of
errors (in pace with the progress of
competitions) which are registered by
referees or judges in score sheets of
seven sports: athletics, gymnastics,
water polo, basketball, handball, fencing,
and yachting.
The ACS "Information" hardware
consisted of:
a. A complex of two IBM 370/148
computers with magnetic tape and
magnetic disc stores, punch card inputs
and outputs, control consoles,
and local terminals.
b. The data teleprocessing system
including two IBM 3705 communication
processors, a data transmission
network and data teleprocessing terminal
equipment installed at points of
information input and output.
c. Copiers.
d. Personnel intercommunication
devices.
To increase reliability of the whole
system, one of the two computers was
held in reserve. Besides, there was a
possibility of making the central processing
unit, magnetic tape and disc
control devices and local terminal
control devices stand-by separately.
The ACS "Competition" hardware
consisted of computer complexes produced
by the Minpribor. They were
installed in 5 regional computer
centres at the following areas: Luzhniki
(The Lenin Central Stadium),
CSCA (Central Sports Club of the
Army) Sports Complex, testing
grounds, Tallinn, and Mir Avenue.
The first four centres had standard
designs, each consisting of the following
functional units:
a. A basic complex of two ASVT
M-7000 computers with additional external
storages and peripheral communication
links.
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b. Data teleprocessing systems
including data links and terminal
units.
The computer centre in the Mir
Avenue area had a SM-2 computer
equipped with additional auxiliary
hardware ensuring high capacity and
reliability of the whole system and a
network of terminals installed at the
Olympiiski Indoor Stadium.
Software of ACS "Information" was
totally based on standard systems: the
OS/VS 16.7 operating system and the
CICS/VS 1.4 user information control
system. Application software was
made up of modules and provided for
two modes of operation:
— batch processing for less
urgent operations;
— on-line mode for immediate
processing of transactions entered
from remote terminals.
The operating system used by ACS
"Information" expanded virtual memory
to 16 Mbytes with a capacity of
the main working storage of 1 Mbytes.
ASSEMBLER, COBOL, and PLI programming
languages were used for the
development and debugging of programmes,
as were debugging and optimising
compilers and devices for
simultaneous operation of a great
number of programmers with original
texts.
Application software of ACS "Information"
included transactions for registration
of competitors, judges and
officials, transactions for results processing
in 21 sports, transactions for
responses to inquiries, and transactions
for real-time control of ACS
"Information".
Software of ACS "Competitions"
included general software and application
software for the seven sports
mentioned above.
The general software of ACS
"Competitions" was based on an
aggregated programming system. A
separate disc multiproblem operating
system was developed on the basis
of the aggregated programming system
for each regional computer
centre. Programming languages,
MNEMOCODE, FORTRAN IV, and
MACROLANGUAGE, provided by the
aggregated programming system,
were used to develop and to debug
the programmes.
The application software of ACS
"Competitions" was made up of modules
and included:
— special application programmes
used in all automatic data-processing
systems controlling competitions;
— problem processing programmes
by sport which realised algorythms
of data processing and
printing of score sheets.