What is Curator?

The Curator process is responsible for compressing incoming images into the Mitra Wavelet format and storing them in the web cache. These studies can be accessed by remote Clients over the World Wide Web or by local display Clients. Wavelet images provide the advantage of partial file transfer, meaning that IMPAX can display a low-resolution view of these images very quickly and can automatically update the display with higher resolution views as they cross the network, until the required resolution of image has been retrieved.

Multiple instances of Curator can be supported. If more than one Curator is installed, the first Curator instance that is started is considered the master Curator. The master Curator owns the web cache and is responsible for servicing requests from the IMPAX Application Server and from IMPAX Clients. The Autopilot running on the master Curator is responsible for the web cache. Each additional Curator checks for PREPARE jobs in the queue associated with the master Curator and writes to the web cache owned by the master Curator.