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| Improve access methodologies for diverse members of the biomedical research community to the entire computational infrastructure of the NCI Frederick Biomedical Supercomputing center (FBSC) by improving the data communications and networking infrastructure through the implementation of evolving networking technologies and high speed interfaces. Initiatives in this area cover a wide variety of data communications technologies including local area networking, wide area networking, requirements for multimedia data transmission, dedicated specialized high speed interfaces for local computer to computer connections (e.g. high speed crossbar switches, HIPPI, fiber channel, etc.), and the use of evolving data communications standards such as ATM and SONET. |
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Acquired and deployed high speed interconnects for the major components of the FBSC.
Established connections to other laboratories of the NIH and biomedical community for high speed data communication. Refined and developed software for access to experimental and computational data from world-wide sources. |
Bring demonstrated capabilities in high performance computing to health research organizations of the public and private sector in open and efficient manner.
Develop and expand high speed links between remote sites for access of the intramural and extramural biomedical research community for video and data conferencing, distributed collaborations and distributed database and computing. |
Expand availability of visual and voice interactions between biomedical computing researchers and projects. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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