CODAM: A Near Term Government Use of Optical Disk
Abstract
The Computer Optical Disk Archival Memory, CODAM, development is a Defense Department program to ensure the availability of an advanced optical disk peripheral to satisfy expanding, archival, high performance computer memory needs. Ultimately, to satisfy user operational requirements, a number of such peripherals will be married to an automated disk handler. The resultant equipment will form an Optical Disk Library ODL, capable of over 1014 bits of on-line storage. The characteristics of the CODAM hardware and the ODL are described. The trade-offs that lead to the choice of the CODAM specifications are presented.
- Publication:
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Zeitschrift Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1002/zamm.19820620908
- Bibcode:
- 1982ZaMM...62..471B
- Keywords:
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- Flow Velocity;
- Free Convection;
- Liquid Surfaces;
- Space Processing;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Zone Melting;
- Axial Flow;
- Crystal Growth;
- Interfacial Tension;
- Laminar Flow;
- Microgravity Applications;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Radial Velocity;
- Space Commercialization;
- Temperature Distribution;
- Temperature Effects;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer