Advances in Parallel Computing and Databases for Digital Pathology in Cancer Research

Abstract : AbstractOver the past decade there have been significantadvances in bringing parallel computing and new databasemanagement systems to a wider audience. Through a numberof efforts such as the National Strategic Computing Initiative(NSCI), there has been a push to merge these Big Data andScientific Computing communities to a single computationalplatform. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, LincolnLaboratory, we have been developing HPC and database technologiesto address a number of scientific problems includingbiomedical processing. In this article, we briefly describe thesetechnologies and how we have used them in the past. Weare interested in learning more about the needs of clinicalpathologists as we continue to develop these technologies.

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