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Lab Resources
Laboratory:
The laboratory is located on the thirteenth floor of the new Ambulatory Care Building, at 1305 York Avenue (York Ave. at 70 St.).
Computing:
The laboratory runs simulations on an Apple X Serve cluster with 24 parallel G5 64 bit processors (see pics below). We also have 2 Apple X RAID storage arrays used to provide data storage and supplemental backup storage. All members of the lab are also provided with a laptop computer for work outside of the laboratory.
Laboratory:
The laboratory is located on the thirteenth floor of the new Ambulatory Care Building, at 1305 York Avenue (York Ave. at 70 St.).
Computing:
The laboratory runs simulations on an Apple X Serve cluster with 24 parallel G5 64 bit processors (see pics below). We also have 2 Apple X RAID storage arrays used to provide data storage and supplemental backup storage. All members of the lab are also provided with a laptop computer for work outside of the laboratory.
Laboratory:
Computer graphics laboratory with one SGI Onyx 4 workstation (four processors, dual graphics pipes), one Xerox Phaser 7700 GX color laser printer rated at 22 ppm. A large number of Macintosh and Windows-based personal computers, as well as Silicon Graphics UNIX workstations, are installed in offices and laboratories for software development, data presentation, desktop visualization, manuscript preparation, access to remote computing systems, and the Internet. All of the systems are interconnected via a Gigabit switched-LAN.
Computing:
Hardware available at the Weill Cornell Weill Medical College (the Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics) and the Institute for Computational Biomedicine:
1. An SGI Altix 3700 system with 16 Intel Itanium 2 processors (1.3 GHz), 16 GB RAM, and 25 GB disk space as a compute server.
2. An IBM p690 system with 16 Power4+ processors (1.7 GHz), 32 GB RAM, and 72 GB disk space as a compute server.
3. An SGI Origin 2000 system with sixteen R10000 processors (250 MHz), 4 GB RAM, and 180 GB disk space as a compute server.
4. Two Brocade FibreChannel Switches to serve as redundant backbones for a FibreChannel SAN storage fabric.
5. A SGI Origin 300 system with four R14000 processors (600 MHz) and 4 GB RAM as a primary metadata file server for clustered file systems (CXFS).
6. An SGI Origin 300 system with two R14000 processors (500 MHz), 1 GB RAM as a backup metadata file server for clustered file systems (CXFS).
7. Two SGI TP9100 disk arrays with 3.4 TB raw disk space used to provide external storage to the file and database servers via a 2Gb Fibre Channel SAN fabric.
8. An Apple X Serve with two G4 processors (1.3 GHz), 2 GB RAM, and 720 GB disk space as a backup server.
9. An Apple X RAID storage array with 2.5 TB raw disk space used to provide supplemental backup storage via 2Gb Fibre Channel SAN.
10. Two SUN LX 50 with two Intel P3 processors (1.4 GHz), 1 GB RAM, and 80 GB disk space as a web server with fail-over.
11. A Dell PowerEdge 2650 system with dual Intel Xeon processors (3.0 GHz) and 6 GB RAM for running Oracle and MaxD + GeNet.
12. A SUN Fire 280 R with two SPARC processors (1.05 GHz), 2 GB RAM, and 34 GB disk space as a database server (Oracle for RDB and FastObjects for OODB).
13. A Dell PowerEdge 650 system with dual Intel Pentium 4 processors (2.6 GHz) and 1 GB RAM for LINUX application development and testing.
Office:
Administrative tasks are handled by a departmental office, including purchasing and limited secretarial tasks.
Weill Cornell Medical College is one of 13 colleges and schools comprising Cornell University. The Medical College provides training and education for approximately 410 medical students, and in conjunction with the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, provides training and education for 249 graduate students and 234 post-doctoral fellows. The basic science and clinical departments are located in multiple tightly clustered buildings straddling York Avenue between 68th and 72nd streets on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The Samuel J. Wood library lies adjacent to the Medical College. The Greenberg Pavilion (which represents the Weill Cornell inpatient facility of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital) and the Hospital outpatient and ambulatory facilities lie in virtual continuity with Weill Cornell Medical College.
Weill Cornell Medical College has 1781 full-time faculty (3582 total faculty) distributed across 8 basic science and 15 clinical departments. The endowment is greater than $282 million. Total research support is in excess of $148 million, of which $123 million represents federal government and non-federal government sponsored research grants, training grants, and fellowships. Weill Cornell Medical College was ranked #12 in the US News and World Report annual medical school survey in 2002.
Research labs:
Weill Cornell Medical College has 232,000 ft2 of research laboratory space. Over the past decade major portions of the research space have undergone renovation coincident with the recruitment of new Chairs in nearly all the basic science departments and in many clinical departments. These renovations have provided many of the Weill Cornell research programs with modern, state-of-the-art laboratories. A $100 million gift from Joan and Sanford Weill was utilized to acquire, renovate, and equip 19,000 ft2 of research laboratory space in the Whitney Building, recruit 30 additional basic scientists and establish their research programs, and significantly enhance research initiatives across the Medical College. The latter includes expansion of bioinformatics, imaging, genomics, chemical biology and the animal facilities.
Among the many information resources available to Weill Cornell students and faculty is the Samuel J. Wood Library and the C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center. The library, which is centrally located at 1300 York Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, occupies 40,000 ft2 of space. This modern library houses over 151,160 volumes and subscribes to 1,424 journals. Especially noteworthy is the fact that the library is one of the country’s first fully automated medical libraries, featuring computer terminals that provide access to its collections from any of several hundred networked desktop computers and student workstations throughout NewYOrk Weill Cornell Medical Center. In addition, the Nathan Cummings Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has joined with the libraries of Weill Cornell Medical College, The Hospital for Special Surgery and The Rockefeller University to share databases. The library also offers a variety of services, including computer-generated literature searches, translations, and inter-library loans. Medical graphics and photographic/audiovisual facilities provide a wide range of art, photographic, and audio-visual services.
Computing:
The Office of Academic Computing (OAC) provides comprehensive computer support, networking, e-mail, web design, server management, and database development for Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. OAC supports almost 4,000 computer users, 58 servers, and numerous advanced database systems. It has created thousands of high-traffic web pages and is currently developing several major database-driven sites throughout Weill Cornell Medical Center. OAC is also creating innovative computer systems and applications for specific clinical and research projects, including cutting-edge work in genetics and structural biology. As a recipient of major grants for its many initiatives at Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, OAC serves as a creative leader in medicine and in computing technologies.
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