Acquisition of SGI Onyx 3400 Supercomputer

收购 SGI Onyx 3400 超级计算机

• 批准号: 6440805
• 负责人: SUSAN L WEARNE
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-03-15 至 2003-03-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6440805
• 关键词: bioimaging /biomedical imaging; biomedical equipment; biomedical equipment purchase; computer simulation; supercomputer

We propose to acquire an SGI Onyx 3400 supercomputer, capable of state-of-the-art performance in simulation, computation and visualization, to upgrade a well-established Computational Core facility, and to provide the basic computational engine of the recently formed Advanced Imaging Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM). A recent initiative at MSSM to expand the imaging and computational sciences, together with the ongoing evolution of bandwidth and resolution in imaging technology is generating enormous multi-dimensional datasets (on order 20-4090 GB in this proposal) whose analysis, reconstruction and visualization demands computational speed and memory far exceeding available resources. No machine current exists at MSSM for visualization and simulation of large multi- dimensional datasets in excess of approximately 1 GB. The Advanced Imaging Program is a distributed program that incorporates all levels of microscopic analysis, MR microscopy and several imaging modalities in humans and animal models, and promotes the exchange of ideas and collaborative initiatives amongst researchers that is essential to ensure the continued advancement of scientific research at MSSM. In addition to the major user group, the supercomputing/visualization facility will be available to collaborators at neighboring institutions (MYU, SUNY Stony Brook), providing a centralized resource for high-performance computational and visualization, and fostering interdisciplinary and inter- institutional collaborations amongst the wider New York research community. Each of the research programs described by the major users of the proposed Onyx 3400 supercomputer is current constrained either by computational limitations or by unmet visualization requirements that are beyond the scope of any available computational resources. The projects that will benefit from the proposed equipment represents a broad range of basic scientific and clinically related studies, which heavily utilize well-developed imaging facilities at MSSM, but are lacking a centralized computational and visualization facility. The acquisition of the proposed supercomputer will have a major impact on research at MSSM by establishing a common facility by computationally intensive analysis and display of high-resolution imaged data. As a shared computational facility, it will promote development and exchange of novel quantitative imaging and image analysis tools between the major users, and foster multi-disciplinary interactions with investigators from diverse areas with common computational and visualization requirements.

我们建议获得一台SGI Onyx 3400超级计算机，能够在模拟，计算和可视化方面具有最先进的性能，以升级完善的计算核心设施，并为西奈山医学院（MSSM）最近成立的高级成像计划提供基本的计算引擎。MSSM最近的一项扩展成像和计算科学的倡议，以及成像技术中带宽和分辨率的不断发展，正在产生巨大的多维数据集（在本提案中为20-4090 GB），其分析，重建和可视化需要远远超过可用资源的计算速度和内存。MSSM不存在用于超过约1GB的大型多维数据集的可视化和模拟的机器电流。高级成像计划是一个分布式计划，包括所有级别的显微镜分析，MR显微镜和人类和动物模型中的几种成像方式，并促进研究人员之间的思想交流和合作计划，这对确保MSSM科学研究的持续发展至关重要。除了主要的用户群，超级计算/可视化设施将提供给邻近机构（MYU，SUNY斯托尼布鲁克）的合作者，为高性能计算和可视化提供集中资源，并在更广泛的纽约研究社区中促进跨学科和机构间的合作。提议的Onyx 3400超级计算机的主要用户所描述的每个研究计划目前都受到计算限制或超出任何可用计算资源范围的未满足的可视化要求的约束。将受益于拟议设备的项目代表了广泛的基础科学和临床相关研究，这些研究大量利用MSSM开发良好的成像设施，但缺乏集中的计算和可视化设施。拟议中的超级计算机的收购将对MSSM的研究产生重大影响，通过建立一个共同的设施，对高分辨率图像数据进行计算密集型分析和显示。作为一个共享的计算设施，它将促进主要用户之间新型定量成像和图像分析工具的开发和交流，并促进来自不同领域的具有共同计算和可视化要求的研究人员的多学科互动。