High Performance Computational Server for Improved Neuroimaging Analysis

描述(由申请人提供)：这份修订后的提案要求为匹兹堡大学MR研究中心购买计算服务器升级提供资金。磁共振研究中心是一个有15年历史的机构资源，一直致力于为匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学的生物医学研究社区开发和提供最先进的磁共振数据采集、重建和分析资源。在过去，该设施一直从部门资金中支持主要的计算升级。然而，考虑到目前的经济状况，用于购买资本设备的资金有限，我们迫切需要的计算服务器升级被搁置。这一升级是必要的，因为现有服务器提供的计算能力已被MRRC使用的几个图像重建和分析软件套件迅速耗尽。MRRC支持100多个外部资助的项目(80%来自联邦政府)，这些项目需要越来越高的计算能力。拟议的文书旨在满足未来4-5年的这一需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised proposal requests funds for purchasing a computing server upgrade for the MR Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. The MR Research center is a 15-year-old institutional resource that has been committed to develop and provide state of the art resources for MRI data acquisition, reconstruction and analysis to the biomedical research community in the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon Universities. The facility has, in the past, continuously supported major computing upgrades from departmental funds. However, given the current economic conditions in the nation, funds for capital equipment purchasing have been limited and the much-needed upgrade for our compute server has been put on hold. This upgrade is needed because the computational power provided by the existing server has quickly been exhausted by several of the image reconstruction and analysis software suites in use at the MRRC. The MRRC supports more than 100 externally funded project (>80% from the federal government) that require an increasingly higher level of computational power. The proposed instrument is designed to meet this need for the next 4-5 years.