You are granted permission for the non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display, and performance of this technical report in any format. However, this permission is only for a period of 45 (forty-five) days from the most recent time that you verified that this technical report is still available from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland at College Park under terms that include this permission. All other rights are reserved by the author(s).
The Virtual Microscope. Renato Ferreira. Bongki Moon. Jim Humphries. Alan Sussman. Joel Saltz. Robert Miller. Angelo Demarzo. April 1997.
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) University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland,
Last Generated Fri Aug 11 04:01:01 EDT 2000