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A Low Cost, High
Capacity Storage Module for Data Grids in Particle Physics--Tempest
Microsystems, 3525 Del Mar Heights Road, #395, San Diego, CA
92130; 858-794-7383
Mr.
Michael Mojaver, Principal Investigator, Michael@tempestinc.com
Ms.
Julie Lundington, Business Official, Julie@tempestic.com
DOE
Grant No. DE-FG03-01ER83315
Amount:
$100,000
Modern high rate, high energy physics experiments
require fast, petabyte scale storage as a key requirement for fast computation
and data analysis in a distributed data grid environment.
However, existing high-speed commercial solutions do not cost-effectively
scale to the petabyte storage range. This
project will apply low-cost, commodity magnetic disk drive technology to develop
a portable, fifty terabyte module, scalable to a petabyte at a cost comparable
to the robotic tape libraries in use today.
In Phase I, various hardware and software tests will be used to test the
validity of several new concepts. A
scaled-down two Terabyte prototype will be constructed, which will serve as the
test system for the majority of the planned work.
Commercial
Applications and Other Benefits as
described by awardee: The technology should not only have application to high
energy physics but also to time critical environments where access to very large
medical imaging or map databases are required.