High-Speed Distributed Data Handling for HENP1

We describe a project whose goal is to demonstrate a scalable solution to the problem of high-bandwidth data handling for analysis of high-energy and nuclear physics data. The STAR experiment at RHIC is used as the basis for a realistic example in this project. The approach is based on a distributed-parallel storage system which collects data from the detector and serves data to a distributed cluster of symmetric multi-processor computers.