The lab has about 1500 sq. ft. space. It composes of abundant computing faculties for medical imaging and daily operational supplies. The major components are
Medical Imaging Computational Grid (MICG)
Medical Imaging Application Software (MIAS)
High Performance Computing Technology (HPCT)
Laboratory Office and Research Space (LORS)
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Medical Imaging Computational Grid (MICG)
MICG stands for medical imaging computational grid, which is a cyberinfrastructure-enabled, Grid computing based computational facility for medical imaging. The integrated system is designed to facilitate future distributed and centralized high performance computing (HPC) for medical image processing, data analysis, and medical imaging data mining, and other intensive computations in modeling and simulations of complex biomedical systems. It is one of three components of MiHi lab's facility, among with Medical Imaging Data Grid (MIIDG) and Medical Imaging Application Software (MIAS) in Medical Imaging HPC & Informatics Lab (or MiHi Lab) of the University of Iowa.. All of these systems are developed or facilitated by open source software.
The system contains multiple distributed HPC clusters (Grid nodes) and each cluster consists of multiple computing nodes or processors. The computational jobs can be conducted and performed in sequence or in parallel cross platforms using the middleware for job scheduling and job monitoring facilitated by Ganglia, Sun Grid Engine (SGE), or Condor, and message passing interface (MPI) parallel library. The clusters are operated by Rocks based on Red-Hat Linux kernel.
With the Rocks installation, couple useful middleware tools are also installed, including AREA51 for system security related services and utilities, BIO for Bioinformatics utilities, CONDOR as High throughput computing tools, GANGLIA, as a cluster monitoring system from UCB, Globus 4.0.4 (GT4) for Grid computing, Sun Java SDK and JVM for Java developers and environment, PBS, the Torque/Maui job queuing system (packaged by University of Tromso), PGI compiler (packaged by Clustercorp), PVFS2 File System, and Sun Grid Engine as job queuing system ad installed on the clusters.
Some clusters are built for production, while others are designed for experiments and test-beds. The detailed information about systems' specifications and their operational status are provided hereby. More...
Medical Imaging Application Software (MIAS)
MIAS lists some of medical imaging related application software installed on our computer systems including all the clusters in MICG. The software are widely-used open source software and/or popular libraries for medical imaging. These application software help the researchers and developers in our lab to process research and clinic based medical imaging, and assist us to develop parallel algorithms and methods for medical imaging, such as parallel medical imaging reconstruction, segregation, registration, enhancement, etc. The software also help us to visualize image data by using popularly valid software package such as VDK, medical data analysis and research or clinic diagnosis. The following software or libraries packages are available at our lab and some have been installed on our computer systems. The detailed and updated information about each software package can be found at the software's home pages. More...
Laboratory Office and Research Space (LORS)