A Computational framework for telemedicine.

Journal Article · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1998 · Future Generation Comput. Syst.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-739X(98)00013-2· OSTI ID:942351

Foster, I; von Laszewski, G; Thiruvathukal, G K; Toonen, B

Emerging telemedicine applications require the ability to exploit diverse and geographically distributed resources. Highspeed networks are used to integrate advanced visualization devices, sophisticated instruments, large databases, archival storage devices, PCs, workstations, and supercomputers. This form of telemedical environment is similar to networked virtual supercomputers, also known as metacomputers. Metacomputers are already being used in many scientific application areas. In this article, we analyze requirements necessary for a telemedical computing infrastructure and compare them with requirements found in a typical metacomputing environment. We will show that metacomputing environments can be used to enable a more powerful and unified computational infrastructure for telemedicine. The Globus metacomputing toolkit can provide the necessary low level mechanisms to enable a large scale telemedical infrastructure. The Globus toolkit components are designed in a modular fashion and can be extended to support the specific requirements for telemedicine.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• Sponsoring Organization: ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 942351
• Report Number(s): ANL/MCS/JA-30578
• Journal Information: Future Generation Comput. Syst., Journal Name: Future Generation Comput. Syst. Journal Issue: 1-2 ; Jul. 1998 Vol. 14; ISSN 0167-739X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: ENGLISH

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