Computation Core

项目总结：计算服务模块 范德比尔特视力研究中心(VVRC)包括对HIGH-R具有浓厚兴趣的教职员工 人类视觉感知和视觉认知的水平成像，清醒时的神经生理学和视觉行为- 非人类灵长类动物的行为，以及人类和非人类灵长类动物视觉的计算模型。这些 认知和系统层面的调查需要计算机系统管理、数据 用于实验的收集、分析和存储以及基于Web的应用程序。以及，其他VVRC 调查人员需要获得硬件和软件维护以及专业编程，包括 基于Web的内容。VVRC计算模块的目的是提供全面的服务 对于支持我们的研究人员进行的广泛的实证研究的计算机硬件和软件。 计算模块为需要解决更复杂问题的研究提供计算机技术支持 依赖计算机的实验室科学面临的挑战。此模块是VVRC内部核心，而不是 VUMC机构设施的一部分；因此，该服务是根据VVRC成员的请求而不是 通过VUMC办公室奖学金研究平台。在本供资期间内的计算 该股为支助12名调查员和140份出版物提供了资源，这些出版物是使用 服务，不包括网站维护。这些都在我们的进度报告核心中作了说明 由调查员撰写的出版物文件。此模块在本期内的可用性节省了VVRC 调查人员程序员和管理员费用为409,910美元。一项对研究人员计划的调查表明， 这项服务的使用将增加，36名VVRC调查员中有19人适度或广泛使用这项服务。这个 计算模块，位于威尔逊霍尔约500平方英尺的办公室、服务器和存储空间中 VVRC调查人员的近端由VVRC调查人员Thomas Palmeri博士指导。利用这个空间和 在此核心机制的支持下，VVRC计算模块将：(1)提供硬件和 VVRC调查的软件支持，(2)提供数据管道、归档和存储解决方案，(3) 提供定制编程解决方案，以及(4)促进基于Web的内容和接口。这些服务 资源将扩大NEI资助的VVRC调查人员进行的实验范围，促进 通过提供定制硬件和软件资源实现创新，并通过以下方式增强协作 为那些本来不具备这种能力的人提供计算支持，包括职业生涯早期 视觉科学家、临床医生--为其实验室争取外部资金的科学家，以及VVRC 调查人员无法获得除基本互联网技术服务以外的计算机专业知识。

PROJECT SUMMARY: COMPUTATION SERVICE MODULE The Vanderbilt Vision Research Center (VVRC) includes faculty investigators with strong interest in high- level imaging of visual perception and visual cognition in humans, neurophysiology, visual behavior in awake- behaving non-human primates, and computational modeling of human and non-human primate vision. These cognitive- and systems-level investigations require expertise in computer systems administration, data collection, analysis, and storage, and web-based applications for experimentation. As well, other VVRC investigators require access to hardware and software maintenance and specialty programming, including web-based content. The purpose of the VVRC Computation Module is to provide a comprehensive service for computer hardware and software that support the wide range of empirical studies our investigators conduct. The Computation Module provides computer technology support for research needed to solve more complex challenges that face computer-dependent laboratory science. This module is a VVRC-intrinsic core and is not part of a VUMC institutional facility; therefore, the service is provided to VVRC members by request and not through the VUMC Office of Research scholarship platform. In the current funding period the computation module contributed resources in support of 12 investigators with140 publications resulting from use of the service, excluding website maintenance. These are indicated as such in our Progress Report Core Publications by Investigator document. Availability of this module during the current period saved VVRC investigators $409,910 in programmer and administrator costs. A survey of researcher plans indicates that the use of this service will increase, with moderate to extensive use by 19 of 36 VVRC investigators. The computation module, housed in approximately 500 sq ft of office, server and storage space in Wilson Hall proximal to VVRC investigators is directed by VVRC Investigator Thomas Palmeri, PhD. Using this space and personnel supported by this Core mechanism, the VVRC Computation Module will: (1) provide hardware and software support of VVRC investigations, (2) provide data pipeline, archiving, and storage solutions, (3) provide custom programming solutions, and (4) facilitate web-based content and interfacing. These services and resources will enhance the scope of experimentation NEI-funded VVRC investigators conduct, promote innovation through the provision of custom hardware and software resources, and enhance collaboration by providing computation support to those who otherwise would not have such capabilities, including early-career vision scientists, clinician-scientists competing for extramural funding for their laboratories, and VVRC investigators without access to computer expertise beyond basic internet technology services.