Virtual Vascular Surgery on the Grid

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 15, 2004 @03:03AM 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."

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The surgery-mobile? by phyruxus · 2004-11-15 09:07 · 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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I wonder... by Omkar · 2004-11-15 21:28 · Score: 1

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