Imaging Volume Sizes (IMAGE)

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Imaging Volume Sizes

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The technology, known as Visualization Streams for Ultimate Scalability (ViSUS), has been used for years in several different areas of research, including clean energy simulations on High Performance Computing platforms. The software processes interactively terascale-sized datasets. The typical laptop has about 4-to-15 gigabytes of memory. One terabyte has 1,000 times that much. That's doable for a supercomputer, but not a grad student's Mac. A whole mouse brain is about 31 terabytes of imaging data. That is same amount of data as about 32 billion digital photographs. The visual cortex of the macaque brain, which Angelucci studies, is 318 terabytes -- 100 times more.

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Cameron Christensen, University of Utah

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