A Main Program and Overlay Manager Subsystem Within a Distributed Function Laboratory Computer System

Microbiology subsystem of a total, dedicated laboratory computer system.

The computer system used by the Microbiology Service of the Clinical Pathology Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health is discussed. This microbiology subsystem is a part of a dedicated on-line laboratory computer system used by the entire department. The laboratory computer is connected on-line to a hospital computer which provides patient admission, transfer, and discharge ...

Subsystem identification within a complex system

Most engineering systems are characterised by a large number of measurement variables. When using Fuzzy Inductive Reasoning (FIR) methodology to model a complex system, a problem of computation time arises. The model can theoretically be computed, but, in practice, the computational cost is too high. If a decomposition of the complex system into subsystems can be achieved, the computational cos...

ScienceLabDatabase: a computer program to organize a molecular biology laboratory.

A description of a novel laboratory management software is provided. ScienceLabDatabase (SLD) offers a useful platform to organize a molecular biology research laboratory. The program manages stocks of biological samples, including plasmids, antibodies and cell lines, laboratory protocols and addresses, and it includes an easy ordering and funds managing system. Preformed data sheet templates h...

The clinical biochemistry laboratory computer system as a simple calculator: a program in MUMPS

Distributed Hierarchical Storage Manager for a Video-on-Demand System

The design of a distributed video-on-demand system that is suitable for large video libraries is described. The system is designed to store 1000s of hours of video material on tertiary storage devices. A video that a user wants to view is loaded onto a video file server close to the users desktop from where it can be played. The system manages the distributed cache of videos on the file servers...