Collaboratory For Microscopic Digital Anatomy

9318180埃利斯曼高性能计算和通信(HPCC)的可用性增加为科学家提供了有效远程交互使用集中式、专门化和昂贵的仪器和计算机的潜力。这一国家挑战项目的目标是设计和实施一个协作计算环境，或微观数字解剖学合作实验室，为远程站点的研究人员提供分布式交互的独特仪器，用于获取和操作生物结构的图像。最初的重点将是开发一个综合系统，用于远程交互获取和分析来自数字图像获取系统的二维和三维光学和电子显微镜数据。为了完成这项任务，已经组建了一个多学科小组，代表几个机构，包括加州大学圣地亚哥分校、康奈尔大学和计算机图形和科学可视化中心，以及圣地亚哥超级计算机中心，其中包括专门从事HPCC和体积可视化的计算机科学家，以及具有计算机辅助光学和电子显微镜专业知识的生物学家。这一奖项将使这些活动成为可能。该项目得到了NSF的几个项目的支持：计算机和信息科学、细胞生物学、计算神经科学和计算生物学中的新技术。

9318180 Ellisman The increased availability of High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) offers scientists the potential for effective remote interactive use of centralized, specialized, and expensive instrumentation and computers. The goal of this national challenge project is to design and implement a collaborative computational environment, or Collaboratory for Microscopic Digital Anatomy, providing a researcher at a remote site distributed interaction with unique instrumentation for the acquistion and manipulation of images of biological structure. The initial focus will be on the development of an integrated system for remote interactive acquistition and analysis of 2- and 3- dimensional light and electron microscopic data from digital image acquistion systems. To accomplish this task, a multidisciplinary team representing several institutions including the University of California , San Diego, Cornell University and the Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, has been assembled, including computer scientists specializing in HPCC and volume visualization, and biologists with expertise in computer-aided light and electron microscopy. This award will enable these activities. This project is being supported by several programs at NSF: New Technologies in Computer and Information Science, Cell Biology, Computational Neuroscience and Computational Biology.