Cyberinfrastructure of a Multi-Petabyte Microscopy Resource for Neuroscience Research

Abstract

Advances in microscopy technologies and techniques are driving development of an integrated cyberinfrastructure to manage the vast amounts of image data being generated. To address this need, a team of neuroscientists and cyberinfrastructure engineers has integrated mass storage, networking, and high-performance computing components to create the Brain Image Library (BIL). BIL serves the neuroscience community by providing a persistent repository for the massive amounts of data being generated (multi-petabyte scale) and by offering brain researchers supercomputing-class processing and visualization capabilities for working with high-resolution brain image datasets.