Virtual Vascular Surgery on the Grid

Roland Piquepaille writes "ERCIM News is a quarterly publication from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. The theme of the latest issue is "Grids: The Next Generation." It contains 32 papers, all available online, covering the following aspects of grid computing: infrastructure, architecture, middleware, programming, applications and new projects. One of the most interesting applications is "Virtual Vascular Surgery on the Grid." The University of Amsterdam recently demonstrated a virtual bypass operation involving grid services for storage, large-scale simulation and visualization. The whole process used computers and visualization services in the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Austria. Read more on this fascinating development."

The surgery-mobile?

[phyruxus]

I wonder how long it'll be before we see ambulances become mobile mini surgeries, with the surgeon back at the hospital?

I also wonder why this story has been on for over 6 hours and this is only the second comment?

I wonder...

[Omkar]

What sort of failsafes do they have so that a power outage/DDOS sort of thing doesn't actually kill anyone?