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Abstract

SANTEER consisted primarily of two projets OSSPP and TIRAND. Projects intended to create storage and database technology. These projects eventually grew into the current ASTEC Project.

This project provided a proving ground for advance technologies for offsite backup and mirroring. The goal of OSSPP was to develop, install, operate and maintain a STorage Area Network (SAN) that was to function as a centally managed off-site storage system. It became operational using critical UNC Asheville data.

TIRAND was a pioneering project that utilizes both archived and real-time NEXRAD radar data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) to create commercially viable value-added products.

TIRAND utilized a Storage Area Network (SAN) and networking solutions developed by NEMAC and OSSPP to maximize data transfer and storage technology.  This was combined with high performance computing to create a database of current and historical radar data. This database contains data attributes that have been processed and was thus ready to be mined (queried) and used for the creation of derived products.

The ASTEC project continued the database work that was started in TIRAND and brought the database system closer to production/commercialization status.

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