[ Thanks to Greta
Durr for this link. ]
“A 32-processor Linux computer cluster is set to crank out
computations in the National Foundation for Functional Brain
Imaging’s (NFFBI) Albuquerque, N.M. facility. The NFFBI’s mission
is to advance and apply neuroimaging techniques aimed at furthering
medical understanding of brain function. The goal is to evenutally
translate laboratory knowledge into clinical relief for people
coping with mental illness.”
“To that end, the NFFBI is planning to integrate
magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) visualizations of the brain using the advanced
supercomputing capabilities of high-end graphics, Linux-cluster
systems, and large data storage systems.”
“The system consists of eight SGI 400L servers, each equipped
with four Intel Pentium III Xeon processors. The software includes
Linux, SGI ProPack software overlay for improved performance and
reliability, and the SGI Linux Advanced Cluster Environment to ease
cluster management and enhance cluster performance, according to
SGI.”