This project adapts ways to utilize high-performance digital television equipment for high-performance storage of digital information. This equipment allows data transfer rates of between 10 Megabytes/second and 120 Megabytes/second. Storage in RAM is available up to a few Gigabytes. Storage on disk systems is available up to 5 Gigabytes. Storage on magnetic tape is available up to 100 Gigabytes per reel or cassette. Phase I of this project will develop designs for hardware interfaces to this equipment and algorithms for software to support data coding and error correction. Phase I will also produce a system architecture design for using this equipment in several useful computer system configurations. The hardware interfaces would be designed for VME and Ultrabus backplanes.
Potential Commercial Applications: The results of this project could provide high data-transfer rate, high-volume, secondary data storage for supercomputers.STATUS: Project Proceded to Phase II
