Research Institute Speeds Cancer Research with High-Performance Computing System

A Microsoft case study on Nationwide Children's Hospital reports Research Institute Speeds Cancer Research with High-Performance Computing System.

The Research Informatics Core at Nationwide Children’s Hospital wanted to increase the speed at which it could digitize pathology slides and support researchers through faster computation of data. The organization worked with the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to deploy the Windows® HPC Server 2008 operating system to support its efforts. The hospital has experienced improved performance and enhanced researcher productivity with the new system.

The case study is accompanied by a cool video which features Aperio's scanning hardware and viewing and management software (albeit unattributed). 

And although you can't tell in the video, under the covers the inherent multiprocessing capabilities of Aperio's Algorithm Framework for image analysis were exploited by the HPC environment. 

We're proud to be a part of the pioneering work of organizations like Nationwide Children's Hospital and Microsoft, especially to "enhance cancer detection and optimize the pathology review process".