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70 -- FIBRE CHANNEL RAID STORAGE DEVICE WITH RACEWAY HOST SOL NRMAG000000071JW DUE 121399 POC Jacqueline Wright (303) 497-5282, FAX (303) 497-3163 E-MAIL: NOAA; MASC Acquisitions Management, Brenda.S.Summers@noaa.gov. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), has a requirement for a high-speed recording device to record raw time-series data from a research WSR-88D Doppler weather radar. The radar typically operates in a volume scan mode performing a scan in as short as 5 minutes. To record 10 volume scans of data using typical scanning parameters requires about 60 gigabytes of space. The recording device must provide at least this much capacity and be easily expandable as requirements dictate. The data is acquired and processed in real-time by an imbedded signal processor using a multiprocessor system based on the Raceway interconnect fabric. The required recording device must be interfaced to the Raceway and transfer a continuous stream of data to a recording device. Data transfer rate is variable depending on the operating mode and the number of samples, but may be as high as 80 Mbytes/sec. Although raw data is commonly recorded through the Raceway interconnect, playback is almost never performed through the same channel. Raw data is usually analyzed and manipulated in an off-line non real-time fashion by user workstations. Therefore the recording device must also be connected to an existing network file server and accessible as a standard raw file system. The file server may be a UNIX machine or a Windows type platform. It is also highly desirable to have random access to any data object in the recorded stream. Thus use of standard magnetic disk storage devices is preferred rather than proprietary magnetic tape storage devices. There is no bid package available. This announcement/solicitation is being issued under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures, FAR Part 13 (NTE $100,000.00). The award decision will be based upon the best value to the Government, with technical merit and past performance being significantly more important than price. Terms and Conditions and agency level protest procedures are referenced at http://netsite.esa.doc.gov.oam. Technical questions can be directed to Allen Zahrai at (405) 366-0576. JACQUELINE WRIGHT, Purchasing Agent. Posted 11/29/99 (D-SN404115). (0333)

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