PAVO: Petascale Storage for High Resolution Wide Area Video

Award Information

Agency: Department of Defense	Branch: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency	Award ID: 86284	Program Year/Program: 2008 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number: 07SB2-0336	Solicitation Year: N/A	Solicitation Topic Code: N/A	Solicitation Number: N/A

Small Business Information: RNET Technologies, Inc.
240 W. Elmwood Dr. Suite 2010 Dayton, OH -
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Woman-Owned: No

Minority-Owned: No

HUBZone-Owned: No

Phase 1: Fiscal Year: 2008

Title: PAVO: Petascale Storage for High Resolution Wide Area Video

Agency / Branch: DOD / DARPA

Contract: W31P4Q-08-C-0093

Award Amount: $99,000.00

Abstract:
Gigapixel cameras can generate petabits of data every hour, requiring vast bandwidth and storage in order to store the entire video sequence for offline forensic analysis. Realtime compression techniques will be developed to greatly reduce the storage requirements. Key requirements of the compression algorithm are computational power, such that the system is power and space efficient, high compression ratios and minimal artifacts. The compression algorithm will operate in a data parallel manner, allowing for very good scalability. RAID partitions will be used inorder to create large storage volumes, and to allow a configurable level of data reliability. Embedded processing elements (e.g., FPGA, FPOAs, GPUs) will be used to implement the compression algorithm in a cost and power efficient system.

Principal Investigator:
Gerald Sabin
Project Manager
9374332886
gsabin@rnet-tech.com

Business Contact:
V. Nagarajan
COO
9374332886
vnagarajan@rnet-tech.com

Small Business Information at Submission:

RNET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
555 Bryant Street #578 Palo Alto, CA 94301

EIN/Tax ID: 200098466

DUNS: N/A

Number of Employees:

Woman-Owned: No

Minority-Owned: No

HUBZone-Owned: No