COMPUTING CORE

计算核心将为基础科学家和进行研究的临床研究人员提供服务 与平衡和听力有关的动物模型，正常人和患者的平衡 平衡失调。计算核心的总体目标是提供高效和经济实惠的 向在NIDCD任务区独立资助的一群科学家提供计算支持。 计算核心将支持多个实验室和共享设施的活动，主要是通过 是实时计算和科学数据分析专家的科学程序员的活动。这个 由科学方案人员支持的实验室和设施均在NIDCD中进行研究 任务区的动物模型或人体受试者。软件的开发和维护将用于 传递感觉刺激，记录生理反应，并处理数据。动物研究活动 这将利用计算核心的服务，将在几个能够 在哺乳动物模型中提供精确的、计算机控制的生理刺激和记录。 将由计算核心提供服务的研究人类课题的实验室包括：1)a) 虚拟环境实验室，由基于投影的沉浸式环境组成，允许控制 当受试者站在固定或移动的表面上时的整个视野，2)人类前庭实验室 包括旋转装置和计算机化的姿势图，以及3)前庭心理生理学 实验室。预计计算核心将促进更多的新实验，这些实验超越 现有单个实验室的能力。计算机核心将促进协作互动 具有生物工程和神经学等不同背景的研究人员。 计算核心将主要占据耳鼻喉科研究中心100平方英尺的办公室 科学程序员眼耳研究所的研究中心。核心赠款总监将管理 核心资源，以确保适当的资源分配。

The Computing Core will serve both basic scientists and clinical investigators who perform research related to balance and hearing using animal models, balance in normal human subjects, and patients with balance disorders. The overall goal of the Computing Core is to provide efficient and cost effective computing support to a group of scientists who are independently funded in NIDCD mission areas. The Computing Core will support activities in multiple laboratories and shared facilities, primarily via the activities of a scientific programmer who is an expert in real-time computing and scientific data analysis. The laboratories and facilities to be supported by the scientific programmer each perform research in an NIDCD mission area on either animal models or human subjects. Software will be developed and maintained for delivering sensory stimuli, recording physiologic responses, and processing data. Animal research activities that will make use of the services of the Computing Core will be performed in several facilities capable of delivering precise, computer-controlled physiologic stimulation and recording in the mammalian models. The laboratories that study human subjects that will be serviced by the Computing Core include: 1) a Virtual Environment Laboratory that consists of a projection-based immersive environment allowing control of the entire visual field while subjects stand on a fixed or moving surface, 2) a Human Vestibular Laboratory consisting of rotational devices and computerized posturography, and 3) a Vestibular Psychophysiology Laboratory. The Computing Core is expected to facilitate additional new experiments that go beyond the capabilities of the existing individual laboratories. The Computer Core will foster collaborative interactions among investigators with various backgrounds including bioengineering, and neurology. The Computing Core will occupy primarily a 100 square foot office in the Otolaryngology Research Center in the Eye & Ear Institute for the Scientific Programmer. The Core Grant Director will manage the resources of the Core to assure appropriate resource allocation.