Research Services Core

技术和计算核心包括：1）一个创新的实验室技术单元， 开发了一种新的自动化实验室控制系统， 核心中心内的几个实验室，正在向其他实验室迁移;以及2） 计算单元，用于维护PC功能、网络、备份和跨 CNCS实验室，以及CNCS其他核心的数据库应用程序。这些单位将 追求以下目标。 实验室技术股将继续实施实验室硬件/软件解决方案， 刺激和行为控制、数据采集和数据分析。单位 使用模块化的、基于PC的嵌入式体系结构（National Instruments的LabView-Real-Time [Nl])它包括一套标准化的实时硬件和软件工具， 每个实验室的特定设备。整个方案确保了灵活性和模块化， 保持各实验室所需的特异性。从NI开始的清晰可靠的升级路径 确保进步和长寿。我们已经在五个实验室实施了该系统， 在其他系统中传播系统，同时随着时间的推移进行升级。新教师 和新的实验室，加上其他人的增量需求，为我们的新状态创造了一个肥沃的生态- 最先进的实验室控制系统一个结果是一组共享关键属性的实验室， 任何级别的研究人员都可以快速平衡其中任何一个，尽管研究目标不同， 研究中的系统。 计算单元提供通用的办公室和实验室PC和软件解决方案， 核心中心，与医疗中心的广泛领域和更基本的服务相一致 （防火墙、安全性）。我们的实验室高度自动化。个人电脑已经取代了许多模拟设备， 我们的机架上，并在台式机上无处不在。实验室和研究人员之间的沟通 是必不可少的。随着时间的推移，我们所有人都需要新的PC硬件和软件，维护， 培训和支持以及数据备份，尽管这些需求很少得到有效满足。的 计算单元纠正了这些缺点，有利于我们的研究生产力， 效率该单元还支持CNCS网络和内联网功能，包括强大的数据库 其他CNCS核心中的结构。总之，这两个核心单元满足所有CNCS的关键需求 人员的在核心中心建立的环境已经并将继续促进 新的互动和合作，并吸引学生和教师到我们的研究使命。

The Technology and Computation Core includes: 1) an innovative Lab Technology Unit that has developed a new automated lab control system, has implemented custom installations in several labs within the Core-Center with ongoing migration to others; and 2) a complementary Computation Unit that maintains PC functions, networking, backup, and communications across CNCS labs, as well as database applications for the other cores of the CNCS. These Units will pursue the following goals. The Lab Technology Unit will continue to implement lab hardware/software solutions to stimulus and behavioral control, data acquisition, and data analysis across the CNCS. The Unit uses a modular, embedded PC-based architecture (LabView-Real-Time by National Instruments [Nl]) that includes a standardized set of real-time hardware and software tools to be interfaced to specific devices within each lab. The overall scheme ensures flexibility and modularity, while maintaining the specificity required by individual labs. A clear and reliable upgrade path from Nl ensures advancement and longevity. We have implemented the system in five labs, and will propagate the system across others, while at the same time upgrading all over time. New faculty and new labs, together with incremental needs of others, creates a fertile ecology for our new stateof- the-art lab control system. One result is a set of labs that share key attributes that in turn allow researchers at any level to rapidly equilibrate to any one of them despite different research goals or systems under study. The Computation Unit provides common office and lab PC and software solutions across the Core-Center, in concert with the Medical Center's extensive domain and more basic services (firewalls, security). Our labs are highly automated. PCs have supplanted many analog devices in our racks and are ubiquitous on desktops. Communications between labs and research personnel are essential. All of us are in need of new PC hardware and software over time, maintenance, training and support, and data backup, though such needs are rarely met effectively. The Computation Unit corrects these shortcomings to the benefit of our research productivity and efficiency. The Unit also supports CNCS web and intranet functions, including powerful database structures in other CNCS cores. In sum, the two Core Units serve crucial needs of all CNCS personnel. The environment established across the Core-Center has, and will continue to, catalyze new interactions and collaborations, and attract students and faculty to our research mission.