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Title: Computer Hardware
Description: Overview of Computer Hardware: Introduction to Basic Terms & Concepts

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Clinical Informatics Academy

Overview of Computer Hardware:
Introduction to Basic Terms &
Concepts
Fusheng Wang PhD
David A Gutman MD PHD

Clinical Informatics Academy

Goals of Lecture
•Provide very brief overview of certain terms and
concepts that may be used throughout the day
•Begin our ascent up the tower of Babel of Informatics

Clinical Informatics Academy

CPUs
• Serves as the basic computation engine (brain) for
the machine
• Intel and AMD make processors used in most
healthcare applications
• Many machines now have “multi-core”, meaning a
single chip contains several individual CPUs
• More cores != faster performance unless underlying
programs can work in parallel

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Serial vs Parallel Operations
• Have a 1 million line document and want to count #
of times “diabetes” appear
• Can start from the top…
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:09 -0400] "GET //scripts/setup
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1" 404 302 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:09 -0400] "GET //admin/pma/scripts/setup
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1" 404 312 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:10 -0400] "GET //db/scripts/setup
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1" 404 305 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:10 -0400] "GET //myadmin/scripts/setup
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1" 404 310 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:11 -0400] "GET //mysqladmin/scripts/setup
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1" 403 317 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"

85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:11 -0400] "GET //phpadmin/scripts/setup
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1" 404 311 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:12 -0400] "GET //phpmyadmin/scripts/setup
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1" 403 317 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:12 -0400] "GET //phpmyadmin2/scripts/setup
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1" 404 314 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:12 -0400] "GET //web/phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup
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1" 404 317 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:13 -0400] "GET //web/scripts/setup
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1" 404 306 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:13 -0400] "GET //websql/scripts/setup
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1" 404 309 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:14 -0400] "GET //phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup
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1" 403 317 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"
85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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114
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121 - - [16/May/2011:08:44:14 -0400] "GET //php-my-admin/scripts/setup
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1" 404 315 "-" "Mozilla/4
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0; Windows 98)"

85
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135
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php HTTP/1
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0 (compatible; MSIE 6
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SQL (2)
• Data Definition Language (DDL), defines properties
of data objects
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3
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1
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1
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1
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3
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3
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16
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1
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6
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Post operative diagnosis: same
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Specialized DBMSs
Special data models/data types/queries:
• XML DBMS: manage XML data directly in XML model
and query language
• e
...
: DB2 pureXML, Oracle XML DB

• Spatial DBMS: manage location related information
...
g
...
g
...
e
...
: what drugs have been prescribed
with Proventil?
• TeraData, DB2 TemporalDB

Parallel DBMS: use data partitioning and parallel data
access to increase I/O bandwidth for scalability
– Oracle RAC, DB2 DPF, DB2 pureScale, TeraData

XML Schema

UML Model

Data Analysis
Applications

(MATLAB, SAS…)

Loading Manager

Image
Analysis
Algorithms

Data Mapping

Analytical
Workflow

ZIP

Quality Control

PAIS
Document
Generator

Database Schema

Parallel Database
Data Staging

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Example Database: PAIS

Image
Viewer

Application
Server

PAIS Data Repository
Clinical Data

caGrid
Service

Molecular & Genetic
Annotation

Pathology
Image
Database

Image Data
Management

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Questions?


Title: Computer Hardware
Description: Overview of Computer Hardware: Introduction to Basic Terms & Concepts