Optical Mass Memory Advanced Technology Demonstration.
Abstract
This document is the Final Technical Report (CDRL A002) for contract number F30602- 93-C-0194, entitled 'Optical Mass Memory Advanced Technology Demonstration (OMM ATD)". The OMM ATD effort was a six month effort, which ran from 6 August 1993 through 6 February 1994. Synectics Corporation was the prime contractor, with Martin Marietta Government Communications Systems serving as a subcontractor on the effort. New optical memory concepts such as Optical Random Access Memories, Optical Cache Memones, and Optical Associative Memories are rapidly reaching maturity. When fielded in the next few years, these systems will provide a significant benefit in relieving the I/O bandwidth bottlenecks currently experienced by supercomputer systems when accessing very large databases. In the near future, computer designers will have memory and interconnect devices with capacities in the Terabytes, throughput rates of Gigabits per second, and access times in the microseconds. The purpose of this effort was to define and demonstrate a hardware and software testbed for demonstrating and evaluating these data storage technologies for use in an operational environment. (KAR) P. 5
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA296296
Entities
People
- Bradley A. Rogers