HIGHLY PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEM

高度并行计算机系统项目的目标是提供一个 并行计算机设施，这将有利于国家卫生研究院的工作人员在他们的 科学计算的需要和发展的方法， 并行处理 该系统将执行计算密集型 生物医学计算中遇到的任务， 传统的机器，并允许DCRT工作人员掌握的技术， DCRT认为并行处理是一门新兴的计算学科 这将在生物医学中有重要的应用。 首次应用 正在为这一新系统调查的领域包括： （1）计算化学 （2）蛋白质和核酸序列分析 （3）生物医学图像处理 （4）生物医学信号处理 （5）一般科学计算 在过去的一年里，DCRT与 国防部高级研究所信息科学技术办公室 项目局（DARPA），以参与其高性能 计算工作。 在这次合作中，DARPA为NIH提供了一个 试金石原型并行计算机系统，开发下 英特尔科学计算机公司的合同。 在未来几年，DCRT将使用 原型开发先进的计算方法，为选定的生物医学 研究项目。 参与试金石项目将使 DCRT保持在国家研究计划的最前沿， 并行计算

The goals of the Highly Parallel Computer System project are to provide a parallel computer facility that will benefit the NIH staff in their scientific computing needs and to develop expertise in the methods of parallel processing. This system will perform computationally intensive tasks that are encountered in biomedical computing in much less time than conventional machines and allow the DCRT staff to master the techniques of parallel processing which DCRT believes is an emerging computing discipline that will have significant application in biomedicine. Initial application areas that are being investigated for this new system include: (1)Computational Chemistry (2)Protein and Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis (3)Biomedical Image Processing (4)Biomedical Signal Processing (5)General Scientific Computing During the past year, DCRT entered into an interagency agreement with the Information Science and Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in order to participate in their High Performance Computing effort. In this collaboration, DARPA provided NIH with a Touchstone prototype parallel computer system that was developed under contract to Intel Scientific Computers. In the coming years, DCRT will use the prototype to develop advanced computing methods for selected biomedical research projects. Participation in the Touchstone project will enable DCRT to remain at the forefront of national research initiatives in parallel computing.