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Advanced visualization technologies are gaining major importance to allow presentation and manipulation of high dimensional data. Since new health technologies are constantly increasing in complexity, adequate information processing is required for diagnostics and treatment. Therefore, the German D-Grid initiative started to build visualization centers in 2008, which have recently been embedded into the existing compute and storage infrastructure. This paper describes an analysis of this infrastructure and the interplay with life science applications for 3D and 4D visualization and manipulation. Furthermore, the performance and business aspects regarding accounting, pricing and billing are investigated. The results show the viability and the opportunities for further optimization of this novel service approach and the possibilities for a sustainable business scenario.
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Dickmann, F. et al. (2009). Visualization in Health Grid Environments: A Novel Service and Business Approach. In: Altmann, J., Buyya, R., Rana, O.F. (eds) Grid Economics and Business Models. GECON 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5745. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03864-8_12
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