PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource PSC NGI VH Report The PSC component of the University of Michigan NGI Visible Human Art Wetzel, PSC

PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource Main areas of work l Network performance analysis and tuning l Volumetric data structures and compression l API and networked serving of cubes/slices l Data registration and fusion l Segmentation for surface generation l Generation of rendered surface views l Collaboratory

PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource Y1 PSC Timeline l Optical exposure correction01/00 l First level delivery of cube volumes02/00 l Baseline net performance to sites03/00 l Remote serving of thorax slices04/00 l Testbed for QOS and network hooks05/00 l Full compressed volume data serve06/00

PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource Y1 PSC Timeline 2 l Registered fusion of data sets07/00 l Segmented surface data sets08/00 l PC client working demo version 009/00 l Demo cube to Edgewarp integration10/00 l Stage 1 surface illumination11/00 l Labeled DS query visualization12/00

PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource Current Status l Layer extraction using GIMP l VF & VM JPEG slice delivery service l VF slices + volumes from 64^3 cublets l Arbitrary plane extraction from cubelets l Evaluating fast MMAP paging device l Deployed collaboratory tools l Monday 10:30AM conference meetings

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PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource Oblique Retrieval from vhserv

PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource

Work in progress l Expanding vhserv XP-1000 l Extracting CT/MRI l Hooking VM data into existing services l Investigating server architectures l Volumetric Data Compression Design l Looking at improved network connectivity l Segmentation using layer seed points l Prototype volume raycasted views l Adapting for 70mm rescans when available

PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource Edge based segmentation cutting boundaries not tissue

PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource Raycasting similar to MPIRE and Mitsubishi

PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource Horsepower vs workload analysis and balancing

PSC’s Biomedical Initiative - An NIH Research Resource Arthur W. Wetzel Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 403 Mellon Institute 4400 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA FAX: