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Publisher Summary This chapter provides an effective way to implement and deliver the computation, which is to code using explicit message-passing, and to execute the code on a distributed-memory computer. New capacities for acquiring, processing, and communicating digital data have already begun a revolution in surgery. The new focus is on a broad and ever widening set of digital data to more completely describe the patient, the disease, the machines in the operating room, the surgical team, and other hospital processes. The results can be more effective intervention and reduced net cost of intervention. Already, effective intervention often cannot be completed without first at least obtaining digital information from automated scans of a patient before surgery. Successful outcomes increasingly depend on managing and exploiting an exploding base of digital data. It outlines a role where one can apply a high-performance computer to obtain summaries of the three dimensional extent of lesions, and other clinically-relevant structures. It then delivers these summaries to workstations at the clinical site in time to provide a basis for planning, for rehearsal, and for guidance during surgery. From a business perspective, projecting the cost of future computing hardware is low risk compared to the risk in predicting clinical utility. Clinical experience now can reduce the risk in business plans, allowing industry to have product ready to exploit new computing hardware soon after it becomes available. |
