________________________________ From: Andries van der Leij Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:59 PM To: 'freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu' Subject: Freesurfer and Grid computing Dear Freesurfer community, I'm a PHD student at the university of Amsterdam and I'm currently investigating the possibilities to streamline our MRI data processing stream. Next summer we'll obtain a research-only scanner. I'm trying to push the group to also invest in computing power and am currently investigating the applications that researchers will most probably use. I came across a project of the group of Cohen at UCLA. They have configured a Apple (unix) grid and have proposed a more or less standard setup specially designed for MRI analyses: http://airto.bmap.ucla.edu/mt-static/NICluster/archives/2005/06/welcome. html It is my understanding that one of the members has rewritten the FSL code which allow distributed parallel processing in a Grid. See the benchmarks here: http://airto.bmap.ucla.edu/bmcweb/bmc_bios/MarkCohen/Apple/Benchmarks.ht m My question is fairly simple: Are similar steps taken in the Freesurfer community? I have no experience with this app myself, but it is my understanding that Freesurfer consumes a lot of resources. Thank you very much in advance, Andries van der Leij
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