Application for funding to develop a software grid for data-sharing associated with the NISAD/LONI Virtual Brain Bank.

该项目将生产工具，以加强地理位置不同的研究人员之间的合作。它以新兴的网格计算机网络技术为基础，创建虚拟研究社区，允许安全地共享地理上不相交的资源，如数据收集、计算机软件和计算机处理能力。该项目的测试案例将创建一个研究大脑疾病（如精神分裂症）的研究人员社区，他们位于澳大利亚的三个地点和美国的一个地点，他们将分享他们的患者数据、分析工具和专用计算机设备。开发的工具将允许相对简单和快速地部署适用于广泛合作项目的类似研究网格。

This project will produce tools to enhance collaboration between researchers at physically disparate locations. It builds on emerging Grid computer network technology to create virtual research communities that permit secure sharing of geographically disjoint resources such as data collections, computer software and computer processing power. The project’s test case will create a community of researchers into brain disease (e.g. schizophrenia) who are located in three Australian and one USA site and who will share their patient data, analysis tools and special-purpose computer equipment. The developed tools will allow relatively simple and rapid deployment of similar research grids suitable for a wide range of collaborative projects.