Intelligent Agents for Search and Information Distribution of Scientific Notebook

65428 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.