![]() "One of the very interesting things we can do with this machine is visualize inside a 300 million-year-old rock fossil of a brachiopod and see inside the structures that were previously unseen," said Mark Riccio, research engineer and Micro-CT facility director, of the internal rib-cage-like feeding apparatus within such a fossil. The scanner is available to the public, academics and the general public across the globe for a fee of $40 to $75 per scan, with preference given to Cornellians. In the past, researchers could obtain such data but the animals would often die or be damaged in the process.Īcquired in 2008 through a consortium including Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, and Cornell's Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and of Engineering, the $500,000 scanner was the first one to be used at a university it became part of the Cornell University Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center early this year. ![]() This new breed of micro-CT scanners allows researchers to quickly and safely get complete 3-D color images of the inside of live small animals, for example, using a computer and low-dose X-rays. The machine can image objects up to about 3 inches across and up to about 8 inches long, with a resolution as fine as 25 microns, or the width of a human hair. Scientists can similarly study processes related to fat deposits, bone density and structure, or hearts in animals. Researchers investigating tumor growth in mouse lungs, for example, can scan their mice every four to six weeks and quantify the development of those tumors. Both tools can help identify drive intensive application by process, but FSE can be configured to target specific output from user defined parameters.From fossilized brachiopods, fish lungs and iPhones to mouse hearts and habanero chilies, Cornell's micro-CT (computer tomography) scanner provides spectacular and colorful 3-D datasets from the inside out. FSE is configurable while FSE-Lite is not. This tool allows the user to create an emergency boot drive to launch Scannerz from if a system is experiencing problemsįSE and FSE-Lite are file system monitors. Version 2.0 offers better file recovery on damaged drives and can track/log bad files. Phoenix can be used for creating an emergency boot drive on an external drive or USB flash drive by extracting the core operating system from an existing installation, perform very basic cloning, and help recover data from a damaged drive. When used in conjunction with Scannerz, it can graphically depict drive I/O, which can visually identify drive drop outs and other drive or system problems. It can help identify problems that appear to be hardware related when they are in fact caused by software. ![]() Performance Probe 2 may be used by itself to identify overactive applications, memory intensive applications, monitor network loading, and with it's load averaging feature, identify applications that are continually bottlenecking the system. Scannerz can identify bad or weak sectors on hard drives and SSDs, identify and test for data corruption occurring between a drive and the logic board, evaluate system and memory faults, determine if excessive drive sleep and head parking events are occurring, and test for problems with I/O cables. The Scannerz application itself is a hard drive, SSD, and system test and evaluation tool. Although this package is best known for the drive and system testing capabilities of the Scannerz application itself, the overall package is targeted at helping users find a host of system problems. The package consists of Scannerz, Performance Probe 2, Phoenix version 2.0 (New!), and FSE or FSE-lite. The Scannerz package is a set of hard drive, SSD, and system analysis tools designed to help users isolate hardware, system, and performance problems.
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