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Data conditioning. Data conditioning is the use of data management and optimization techniques which result in the intelligent routing, optimization and protection of data for storage or data movement in a computer system.  Data conditioning features enable enterprise and cloud data centers to dramatically improve system utilization and increase application performance lowering both capital expenditures and operating costs.

Data conditioning technologies delivered through a Data Conditioning Platform optimize data as it moves through a computer’s I/O (Input/Output) path or I/O bus—the data path between the main processor complex and storage subsystems.  The functions of a Data Conditioning Platform typically reside on a storage controller add-in card inserted into the PCI-e slots of a server.  This enables easy integration of new features in a server or a whole data center.

Data conditioning features delivered via a Data Conditioning Platform are designed to simplify system integration, and minimize implementation risks associated with deploying new technologies by ensuring seamless compatibility with all leading server and  storage hardware, operating systems and applications, and meeting all current commercial/off-the-shelf (COTS) standards.  By delivering optimization features via a Data Conditioning Platform, data center managers can improve system efficiency and reduce cost with minimal disruption and avoid the need to modify existing applications or operating systems, and leverage existing hardware systems.

Summary 

Data conditioning builds on existing data storage functionality delivered in the I/O path including RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks), intelligent I/O-based power management, and SSD (Solid-State Drive) performance caching techniques.  Data conditioning is enabled both by advanced ASIC controller technology and intelligent software.  New data conditioning capabilities can be designed into and delivered via storage controllers in the I/O path  or to achieve the data center’s technical and business goals.

Data Conditioning strategies can also be applied to improving server and storage utilization and for better managing a wide range of hardware and system-level capabilities.

Background and Purpose 

Data conditioning principles can be applied to any demanding computing environment to create significant cost, performance and system utilization efficiencies, and are typically deployed by data center managers, system integrators, and storage and server OEMs seeking to optimize hardware and software utilization, simplified, non-intrusive technology integration, and minimal risks and performance hits traditionally associated with incorporating new data center technologies.

References 

Adaptec MaxIQ

Data management
CANT Z.1012. The CANT Z.1012 was a small three-engined monoplane built in Italy in the late 1930s to carry either three or five passengers depending on the engines.  A small number were built for Italian diplomatic use.

Design and development
In 1937 CANT (Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico) won a contract to build an aircraft for the Italian diplomatic corps in their embassies abroad.  The result was the CANT Z.1012.

It was a low wing cantilever monoplane with an aerodynamically clean wooden structure and plywood skin.  The single spar wings were tapered, carrying balanced ailerons and slotted flaps inboard.  The fuselage had an oval cross-section and was built on a keel with longitudinal members and transverse frames.  The cabin, over the wing, was fully glazed and had a starboard side seat for one passenger alongside the pilot with a bench seat behind for two more. A third row could be included if a lower fuel load was carried.  The back of the bench seat folded for access to a baggage compartment. The fin was integral with the fuselage and was quite tall, carrying the tailplane about halfway up.  The tailplane was braced below to the fuselage.  Both rudder and elevators were fabric covered and both mass and horn balanced.

The Z.1012 was powered by three inverted air-cooled inline engines, one mounted in the nose and the other two in long fairings on the wings.  There were two engine options, either the 90 kW (120 hp) Alfa-Romeo 110, a four-cylinder unit, or its six-cylinder relative, the 138 kW (185 hp) Alfa-Romeo 115.  The more powerful engines raised the top speed by 48 km/h (30 mph) . The main undercarriage units retracted into the engine fairings but the tail wheel was fixed.

The Z.1012 first flew on 13 November 1937 with the four-cylinder engines, appearing at the Belgrade air show that summer. This aircraft was used by the Italian Air Attaché in Washington. Two similar aircraft followed, the first bound for the Italian embassy in Brazil and the second owned by Bruno Mussolini.  Two more were built with the bigger engines and were used by Air Marshall Italo Balbo and by General Giuseppe Valle.

Specifications (Alfa-Romeo 110)

References

Citations

Cited sources

Z.1012
1930s Italian civil aircraft
Trimotors
Low-wing aircraft
Indian Reservation Roads Program. The Indian Reservation Roads Program (IRR) is part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and is meant to meet the transportation needs of American Indians in the United States, American Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives. These roads, also known as BIA Roads are given to tribes by providing funds for planning, designing, construction, and maintenance activities.

The program is jointly administered by the Federal Lands Highway Program and the BIA. These roads are public that provide access to and within Indian reservations, Indian trust land, restricted Indian land, and Alaska native villages. Approximately  are under the jurisdiction of the BIA and tribes and another  are under State and local ownership.

The authorizing legislation is the highway authorization act (currently the Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act – A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU)) and codified in Title 23 U.S.C. and 25 C.F.R. Part 170.

The IRR program funds can be used for any type of Title 23 transportation project providing access to or within Federal or Indian lands and may be used for the State/local matching share for apportioned Federal-aid Highway Funds.

List of roads

See also

External links
Federal Highway Administration Home Page
Indian Reservation Roads Inventory

References

This article incorporates public domain material from dot.gov

United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
Federal Highway Administration
Internet Routing in Space. Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) was a program to build a radiation-tolerant IP router created by Cisco Systems for satellite and related spacecraft. It was a follow-on from Cisco's earlier CLEO router in space on the UK-DMC satellite. The Cisco Space Router was launched to geostationary orbit on board Intelsat 14 (IS-14), a spacecraft built by Space Systems/Loral for satellite operator Intelsat, in November 2009. IRIS was evaluated by the United States Department of Defense by way of a JCTD (Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration). The Space Router runs Cisco IOS (Internetworking Operating System) software and also contains an onboard Software-defined radio running satellite modem waveforms. The United States Department of Defense used the JCTD to evaluate the reduced latency, improved throughput and increased flexibility provided by the Space Router.

The Space Router provided the ability to route Internet Protocol computer network traffic on board the satellite, which enabled users of Web, VoIP, and other IP applications to directly communicate without having to double-hop data to and from an intermediate Earth station.  The ability to avoid the double-hop to the Earth station can reduce latency, which is approximately 250 ms for GEO satellites. Latency reduction is a key driver for increased use of real-time applications, including video teleconferencing, over satellites.

The avoidance of the double-hop to the Earth station can also reduce satellite transponder costs. Routing IP traffic natively on the satellite with the router's built-in Cisco IOS Software and onboard software-defined radio can increase throughput, reduce latency, and enable flexible bandwidth-on-demand real-time applications between users in different geographic regions that do not have easy access to fiber networks.

IRIS is an example of a hosted payload,  a method to add multiple non-core components to satellite to reduce the cost of launching the components into orbit.

References

External links
 Will IRIS change the space business, Michael Armstrong-Smith, Space Newsfeed, May 2011.
 IRIS information, papers and documents
 Cisco Systems material on IRIS (no longer online)
 Intelsat General material on IRIS
 SS Loral material on Intelsat-14

Cisco Systems
Satellite Internet access
Spacecraft components
International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies. ISoFT is the abbreviation for the International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies. This symposium series was founded to discuss recent advances, including commercial applications, of technologies related to fluorous chemistry.

History 
 The first meeting of ISoFT was held July 3–6, 2005 in Bordeaux, France.  Jean-Marc Vincent and Richard H. Fish organized the first symposium, selected the International Advisory Board, and instituted the Fluorous Technology Award.
 The second meeting of ISoFT was held July 29-August 1, 2007 in Yokohama, Japan. The meeting was chaired by Drs. Junzo Otera and Kenichi Hatanaka.
 The third ISoFT meeting was held in conjunction with the 19th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry from August 23–28, 2009 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
 The fourth meeting of ISoFT was at the City University of Hong Kong from November 30-December 3, 2011 and was chaired by Dr. István T. Horváth.
 The fifth ISoFT meeting was held from June 2–5, 2013 at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and was chaired by József Rábai.
 The sixth ISoFT meeting was held from August 23–28, 2015 at Politecnico di Milano in Como, Italy, as a joint event with 21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry and was chaired by Pierangelo Metrangolo, Giuseppe Resnati and Giancarlo Terraneo.
 The seventh ISoFT meeting was held from August 9-11, 2017 at Tufts University outside Boston, MA, USA and was chaired by Krishna Kumar, Wei Zhang and Vittorio Montari.

Fluorous Technology Award 
In recognition of major contributions to fluorous chemistry:
 
 2005, István T. Horváth (City University of Hong Kong)
József Rábai (Eötvös Loránd University)
 2007, John A. Gladysz (Texas A&M University)
Dennis P. Curran (University of Pittsburgh)
 2009, Ilhyong Ryu (Osaka Prefecture University)
 2011, Gianluca Pozzi (CNR-Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari)
 2013, Richard H. Fish (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Jean-Marc Vincent (University of Bordeaux)
 2015, Wei Zhang (University of Massachusetts)
 2017, Nicola Pohl (Indiana University)

References

Fluorine
Airdrome Dream Classic. The Airdrome Dream Classic is a minimalist, high wing, single seat, single engine ultralight aircraft inspired by the 1908 Santos-Dumont Demoiselle and produced in kit form by Airdrome Aeroplanes of Holden, Missouri.

The aircraft is intended for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles category.

Development
The Dream Classic was designed as a low-cost and very basic ultralight. The fuselage is open and constructed from pop-riveted aluminum tubing. The wing is covered with aircraft fabric and is wire-braced utilizing a kingpost to support the ground loads or optionally strut-braced. The wings can be removed in 20 minutes for trailering. Controls are conventional three-axis, with the elevator and ailerons operated by a side stick.

Two different wings are available, a standard wing of  span and 122 sq ft (11.35 sq m) area and a speed wing of  span and 86 sq ft (8.00 sq m) area. The speed wing restricts the aircraft's useful load to ,  while the standard wing allows .

The standard engine is the  Rotax 447, although engines of  can be used. The manufacturer estimates that a builder will take 100–120 hours to complete this aircraft from the kit. In 2009 the airframe-only kit for the wire-braced version cost US$3495 and US$3995 for the strut-braced version. A completed airframe is also available for an additional US$2000.

By the fall of 2007, 48 wired braced and one strut-braced Dream Classics were flying.

Variants
Dream Classic Standard
Single seat ultralight with  wingspan and 122 sq ft (11.35 sq m) wing area, standard engine  Rotax 447
Dream Classic Speed
Single seat ultralight with  wingspan and 86 sq ft (8.00 sq m) wing area, standard engine  Rotax 447

Specifications (Dream Classic Speed)

See also

References

External links

1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Engineering and Fastener Trade Union. The Engineering and Fastener Trade Union was a trade union based in the West Midlands of England.

History

The union was founded in 1914 as the Screw Nut Bolt and Rivet Trade Union. It represented workers who used machinery to make screws, nuts, bolts and rivets. As the handmade section of the industry declined, it gained members from the National Amalgamated Society of Nut and Bolt Makers. Its membership remained just below 2,000 from the mid-1920s to 1956, when it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. By 1977, membership was estimated at 4,000.  In 1989, the union changed its name to the "Engineering and Fastener Trade Union". By the mid-1990s, membership was down to 240, all of whom worked at GKN.  The union was dissolved in 2004.

General Secretaries
J. R. Smith
1940s: F. A. Smith
1950s: H. Cater
1981: E. C. Bowcott
1988: W. Redmond
1990: J. Burdis
2000: A. Evans

References

Trade unions established in 1914
Trade unions disestablished in 2004
Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
Engineering trade unions
1914 establishments in the United Kingdom
Trade unions based in the West Midlands (county)
AEDC Ballistic Range S-3. AEDC Ballistic Range S-3 is a single stage air gun owned by the United States Air Force. The gun is commonly used for bird strike testing and is often called a chicken gun.

History 
The first Range S-3 was developed by Eugene Sanders at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex for use in aircraft canopy testing. The gun validated many of the canopies designs used on fighter aircraft over the last several decades. The range also played an instrumental role in developing the ASTM F330 specification: Standard Test Method for Bird Impact Testing of Aerospace Transparent Enclosures.

Capabilities
The gun uses a large compressed air reservoir to launch a projectile out of a  diameter barrel. Launch speeds of  can be attained. The barrel can also be reconfigured to launch square or rectangle projectiles. The most commonly used projectile is a dead chicken prepared in accordance with the ASTM specification.

See also 
 Arnold Engineering Development Complex
 Ballistics
 NASA Chicken Gun

References

External links
 Arnold Engineering Development Center (official)
 Arnold Engineering Development Center at GlobalSecurity.org

Air guns of the United States
Aviation safety
T3 Hypersonic wind tunnel. The T3 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel is a hypersonic wind tunnel of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEAv) of the Brazilian Air Force. The T3 is the largest hypersonic wind tunnel in Latin America. The tunnel is capable of producing airflow at speeds up to 25 times the speed of sound (Mach 25). It was fully constructed by the IEAv with national technology. The tunnel is used by the Brazilian Air Force and the Brazilian Space Agency in its advanced projects.

References

External  links
Institute of Advanced Studies (IEAv) Official website

Military equipment of Brazil
Brazilian Air Force
Wind tunnels
Sedena-Henschel HWK-11. The Sedena Henschel HWK-11 was a joint project between the Mexican  Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) and Henschel Wehrtechnik GmbH of West Germany.

Development 
The HWK-11 came about at the request from the Mexican defense secretary for a new tracked armored troop carrying vehicle for the Mexican army. The HWK was mainly German designed although Mexico had some input in the design process in the form that Mexico set certain requirements and specifications for the vehicle and Mexico also designed the basic configuration of the hull.

Production 
In 1964 the first 12 vehicles were manufactured in West Germany and delivered to the Mexican Army while facilities were set up in Mexico to manufacture the vehicle locally. Initially 350 HWK-11s in multiple variants were to be manufactured for the Mexican military but the entire order was not completed. At least 40 vehicles were produced but the exact total number of vehicles produced has not been disclosed by the Mexican military.

Specifications

First Version - 1965 
The first versions of the HWK-11 were strictly troop transport vehicles with only a single turret mounted 7.62 MG3 machine gun that could be fired from within the vehicle. This initial version featured a 180 hp engine and a two image intensifiers, one for the driver and one for the machine gun operator.

Second Version - 1980 
In 1980 one vehicle was used to test the use of a one-man Helio FVT900 turret with a 20 mm cannon and a coaxial 7.62 mm machine gun. The upgrade also included the upgrading of the vehicles engine to the 6V-53 Detroit Diesel which produced 210 hp and allowed the vehicle to reach up to 70 km/h.

Third Version - 1993 
In 1993 the vehicle was upgraded one more time, given a more powerful engine (the type of which is unknown) and new German made M113 caterpillar road wheels. The most significant upgrade to this new version is the addition of a French design fully enclosed turret mounting a 7.62 mm machine gun.
Finish 1993

Medium tank 
A medium tank variant was produced in small quantities to be utilized as an infantry fire support vehicle. It features French designed turret mounting a 90mm gun borrowed from the Panhard ERC90 and a night vision system. The engine type fielded has not been publicly disclosed.

Comparable Vehicles 
 German Schützenpanzer Marder
 Soviet BMP-1
 United States M113 armored personnel carrier
 British FV432

External links & References 

 www.army-guide.com/eng/product990.html
 http://idd007kg.eresmas.net/art/hkw11/index.html

Tracked infantry fighting vehicles
Armoured fighting vehicles of Mexico
Military vehicles introduced in the 1960s
VS-40. The VS-40 (Foguete Suborbital VS-40) is a Brazilian sounding rocket using solid fuel and stabilized aerodynamically. 

The original version, VS-40, uses the S-40TM (4,200 kg) first stage engine and the S-44M (810 kg) second stage engine. This configuration corresponds to the upper stages of the VLS-1 rocket.

Version VS-40M used a S-40M engine for the first stage.

Flights
VS40 performed the following flights:

A flight of  VS-40M carrying "SARA Suborbital 2" was planned but eventually cancelled. A future flight of VS-40M carrying HIFiRE 8 is in development.

Characteristics

Length (mm) 6725
Payload Mass (kg) 500
Diameter (mm) 1000
Total takeoff mass (kg) 6,737
Mass of propellant (kg) 5,054
Structural mass (kg) 1,028
Apogee (km) 650
Microgravity time (s) 760

References

External links

 O Foguete de sondagem VS-40
 Agência Espacial Brasileira :: Veículos Lançadores
 SHEFEX 2 at Andoya Rocket Range

Sounding rockets of Brazil
Space program of Brazil
Beardmore 160 hp. The Beardmore 160 hp is a British six-cylinder, water-cooled aero engine that first ran in 1916. It was built by Arrol-Johnston and Crossley Motors for William Beardmore and Company as a development of the Beardmore 120 hp, itself a licensed-built version of the Austro-Daimler 6.

Development
The engine featured cast iron cylinders and mild steel concave pistons. Produced between March 1916 and December 1918, the design powered many World War I aircraft types. It was noted that the engine was not as reliable as its smaller capacity predecessor.

Applications
Airco DH.3
Armstrong Whitworth F.K.7
Austin Kestrel
Beardmore W.B.II
Beardmore W.B.X
Central Centaur IIA
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.6
Martinsyde G.102
Norman Thompson N.T.2B
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2
Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7
Short Sporting Type
Sikorsky Ilya Muromets (No. 182)
Supermarine Channel
Supermarine Sea King
Vickers F.B.14

Survivors
A Beardmore 160 hp has been restored to airworthy condition by The Vintage Aviator Ltd, an aircraft restoration company based in Wellington, New Zealand. The engine was found complete and in a preserved condition in a farm shed in    Uruguay, after a complete overhaul and ground test runs the engine powered the company's F.E.2b replica on its maiden flight.

Engines on display

A partially sectioned Beardmore 160 hp is on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
The Beardmore 160 hp engine installed in the recently restored F.E.2 can be viewed at the Royal Air Force Museum London.

Specifications (160 hp)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. 
 Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I. London. Studio Editions Ltd, 1993. 
 Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

External links

thevintageaviator.co.nz - Video of ground running a restored Beardmore 160 hp

1910s aircraft piston engines
160
List of boiler types by manufacturer. There have been a vast number of designs of steam boiler, particularly towards the end of the 19th century when the technology was evolving rapidly. A great many of these took the names of their originators or primary manufacturers, rather than a more descriptive name. Some large manufacturers also made boilers of several types. Accordingly, it is difficult to identify their technical aspects from merely their name. This list presents these known, notable names and a brief description of their main characteristics.

See also 
 Glossary of boiler terminology

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References 

Fire-tube boilers
Water-tube boilers
Steam boilers
Boilers
Steam power