National Institutes of Health (NIH) 



The National Institutes of Health (NIH) contribution to the HPCC Program focuses on 

 biomedical applications of computing and digital communications. Four NIH units have 

 HPCC programs: 



NLM - National Library of Medicine 



NCRR - National Center for Research Resources 



DCRT - Division of Computer Research and Technology 



NCI - National Cancer Institute 



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NIH participates in each of the five components of the 

 overall Federal HPCC Program, as follows: 



HPCS: Evaluation for Biomedical Applications 



Through DCRT, NCI, and NCRR, NIH applies and eval- 

 uates scalable parallel computing systems to problems 

 of biomedical significance. This includes adapting exist- 

 ing molecular analysis algorithms to new computing 

 architectures, and developing entirely new approaches 

 that take advantage of computational parallelism. 



NREN: Increasing Access and Transmitting 

 Biomedical Images 



DCRT and NLM have complementary investments in 

 extending gigabit speed communications for high data 

 volume scientific applications, as well as lower speed 

 connections for a broad community of research and edu- 

 cation institutions. 



DCRT's efforts focus on high speed networking to sup- 

 port the intramural research program of the NIH; NLM 

 serves as a national resource, providing support for 

 medical centers to connect to the Internet, and develop- 

 ing prototype biomedical digital image libraries that use 

 the Internet as a high speed distribution channel. An 

 Intelligent Gateways project, co-sponsored by NLM and 

 NSF, is developing methods to link dissimilar databanks 

 over the Internet, using automated "Knowbots" 

 (Knowledge Robots). 



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