About the DSSC
The Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) at Carnegie Mellon University is an interdisciplinary research and educational organization whose mission is to advance information storage technologies. Faculty and students from a wide range of disciplines at Carnegie Mellon are developing the fundamental understanding of the science and advanced engineering methods required for future generations of information storage systems.
The DSSC is a collaborative effort between several Carnegie Mellon departments:
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
- Learn more about the history of DSSC.
- Directions to the DSSC.
Save the Date: Spring Review Is March 24
The Data Storage Systems Center will host its Spring 2010 Technical Review on Wednesday, March 24, in the Singleton Room of Roberts Engineering Hall. The technical review, held twice a year, is an opportunity for center members, invited guests and DSSC personnel to be brought up-to-date on current research projects at the DSSC through oral presentations and poster sessions that highlight the center's concentration areas. Thursday, March 25, has also been reserved for sponsor and project meetings. Keep watching this Web site for more information and a detailed agenda for the review.
Kryder, Kim Investigate What Comes After Hard Drives
What comes after hard drives? No one can be totally certain, but University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Mark Kryder — founder of the DSSC and chief technical officer and senior vice president of research (retired) at Seagate Technology — has a few ideas. And people are starting to notice.
Kryder and ECE graduate student Chang Soo Kim recently completed a study, delivered at Intermag 2009 and published in the October 2009 edition of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, called "After Hard Drives — What Comes Next?" In the study, Kryder and Kim investigate 13 different nonvolatile memory technologies viewed as being capable of replacing hard disk drives and analyze their likelihood of doing so by 2020 on a cost-per-terabyte basis.
Zhu Featured in EE Times Article
DSSC Director and ABB Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jimmy Zhu was recently featured in an EE Times article about alternate paths for hard disk drives. Specifically, the article cited Zhu's work in microwave assisted magnetic recording and discussed progress toward developing a MAMR prototype.
Events
-
Spring 2010 Technical Review
March 24
For more information on DSSC events, contact Pat Grieco.
Affiliates
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |