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21 November 1995 Technology insertion of a COTS RAID server as an image buffer in the image chain of the Defense Mapping Agency's Digital Production System
James W. Mehring, Scott D. Thomas
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Proceedings Volume 2606, Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.227268
Event: Photonics East '95, 1995, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Abstract
The Data Services Segment of the Defense Mapping Agency's Digital Production System provides a digital archive of imagery source data for use by DMA's cartographic user's. This system was developed in the mid-1980's and is currently undergoing modernization. This paper addresses the modernization of the imagery buffer function that was performed by custom hardware in the baseline system and is being replaced by a RAID Server based on commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware. The paper briefly describes the baseline DMA image system and the modernization program, that is currently under way. Throughput benchmark measurements were made to make design configuration decisions for a commercial off the shelf (COTS) RAID Server to perform as system image buffer. The test program began with performance measurements of the RAID read and write operations between the RAID arrays and the server CPU for RAID levels 0, 5 and 0+1. Interface throughput measurements were made for the HiPPI interface between the RAID Server and the image archive and processing system as well as the client side interface between a custom interface board that provides the interface between the internal bus of the RAID Server and the Input- Output Processor (IOP) external wideband network currently in place in the DMA system to service client workstations. End to end measurements were taken from the HiPPI interface through the RAID write and read operations to the IOP output interface.
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James W. Mehring and Scott D. Thomas "Technology insertion of a COTS RAID server as an image buffer in the image chain of the Defense Mapping Agency's Digital Production System", Proc. SPIE 2606, Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems, (21 November 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.227268
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Commercial off the shelf technology

Image processing

Digital imaging

Defense and security

Image segmentation

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