The Virtual Microscope

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1998-10-15
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Ferreira, Renato
Moon, Bongki
Humphries, Jim
Sussman, Alan
Saltz, Joel
Miller, Robert
Demarzo, Angelo
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We present the design of the Virtual Microscope, a software system employing a client/server architecture to provide a realistic emulation of a high power light microscope. We discuss several technical challenges related to providing the performance necessary to achieve rapid response time, mainly in dealing with the enormous amounts of data (tens to hundreds of gigabytes per slide) that must be retrieved from secondary storage and processed. To effectively implement the data server, the system design relies on the computational power and high I/O throughput available from an appropriately configured parallel computer. (Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-97-35)
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