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Virtual Vascular Surgery on the Grid

Posted by Hemos on from the cool-applications dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "ERCIM News is a quarterly publication from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. The theme of the latest issue is "Grids: The Next Generation." It contains 32 papers, all available online, covering the following aspects of grid computing: infrastructure, architecture, middleware, programming, applications and new projects. One of the most interesting applications is "Virtual Vascular Surgery on the Grid." The University of Amsterdam recently demonstrated a virtual bypass operation involving grid services for storage, large-scale simulation and visualization. The whole process used computers and visualization services in the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Austria. Read more on this fascinating development."

5 comments

  1. woot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    First post! and uh maybe the only post.

  2. The surgery-mobile? by phyruxus · · Score: 1
    I wonder how long it'll be before we see ambulances become mobile mini surgeries, with the surgeon back at the hospital?

    I also wonder why this story has been on for over 6 hours and this is only the second comment?

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    1. Re:The surgery-mobile? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The "grid" hype is over (Thankfully from my perspective as an operator of machines on the former "european data grid").

      Now "grid" stuff is about as interesting to the average teenage slashdotter looking for a peer group of gay niggers, linux users or microsoft ass-troturfers to identify with as an article on erlang modules or the bizarre axial anomaly in quantum field theory - the grid is there, it works, like the web does, so an article basically saying how wonderful grids are is as interesting as an article praising the web in heady pre-.com-bust terms.

  3. Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'll start a tradition here, by announcing the one and only: THIRD POST!!!!! Beat that, you lame-ass GNAA trolls!

  4. I wonder... by Omkar · · Score: 1

    What sort of failsafes do they have so that a power outage/DDOS sort of thing doesn't actually kill anyone?