According to an announcement from Interactive Supercomputing, researchers at The University of Texas’ M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are applying new supercomputing technology to biomedical imaging in the quest to detect and eliminate cancer.
As a stepping stone toward more advanced infrastructures such as large scale clusters and SMPs, M. D. Anderson’s Department of Imaging Physics’ staff will first address this computational hurdle by parallelizing their imaging software to run on a Sun Fire X4600, a powerful server with eight multi-core Opteron processors and 32 gigabytes of memory.
