[Neurobureau-hubs] Brainhack 2012 and brainhack.org updates

Fri Apr 6 10:37:43 PDT 2012

make it so ;)!

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On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:26 PM, MCLAREN, Donald wrote:

> If you want, I can email some people that I know (not very well) from
> college/Highschool at Amazon and google and see if I can find the
> appropriate contacts.
> 
> Let me know and I'll send out emails on Monday.
> 
> Best Regards, Donald McLaren
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> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Cameron Craddock
> <cameron.craddock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't really have anything to add, except that this will certainly pose a
>> problem. I have access to VT resources which I will be able to use for my
>> project, but getting permission to others is probably tantamount to me
>> running a marathon, I will probably die before it ever happens ;).
>> 
>> Beyond that I do think we should try to secure some additional resources to
>> use, but I have no idea what or where. Maybe we could get a generous
>> donation of time on some of Oak Ridge's resources? Or talk amazon (or
>> another purveyor of cluster computation) into giving us free time on their
>> grid?
>> 
>> Do you have any suggestions Clare?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> cc
>> 
>> On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Daniel Margulies wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Clare,
>> 
>> At the moment, I think it will be too much of a headache to deal with
>> setting up a server at the MPI for open use at the conference -- better to
>> have people plan ahead with their own remote computational resources. I
>> imagine we can have all the datasets available for download from a local
>> machine though, which should speed things up a bit.
>> 
>> Thanks for asking -- we should certainly clarify all this on the webpage and
>> in preparatory emails to the attendees.
>> 
>> If you have any ideas about useful and feasible resources though, please let
>> me know, and I can bring it up with IT.
>> 
>> Cameron, Pierre, any thoughts on cbrain possibilities?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 6, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Clare Kelly <amclarekelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Cameron,
>> 
>> I had a bit of a logistical question - what computational resources will
>> people be using/expected to use for these projects - whatever they have
>> access to themselves, or will access to something be part of the conference?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Clare
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Cameron Craddock
>> <cameron.craddock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> I have updated brainhack.org to include a page for Brainhack 2012, to
>>> include a form to submit new projects and changed the header logo. Please
>>> look it over and let me know what you think.
>>> 
>>> For Brainhack 2012 we are hoping to seed brainhack.org with a few projects
>>> that will take place during the brainhack. Once you come up with a project
>>> idea please add it to brainhack.org. You can either add the post directly or
>>> use the "+submit a new project" form to submit the project and I will add
>>> it. Please do this as soon as possible, we are hoping to lead by example and
>>> set the tone for what we expect at the brainhack. Maarten has already come
>>> up with a cool project to develop a tool to automate the generation of
>>> figures. Other possible ideas include data-mining the neurosynth database,
>>> applying your favorite regularized covariance estimation to the estimating
>>> connectomes, or even just performing freesurfer on the ADHD-200 data. Let me
>>> know if you would like any help coming up with a project idea, or if you
>>> have any problems adding the project to the brainhack.org site.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Cameron
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cameron Craddock, PhD
>>> cameron.craddock at gmail.com
>>> 
>>> Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
>>> 
>>> Co-Founder, The Neuro Bureau
>>> http://www.neurobureau.org
>>> 
>>> 
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>> --
>> Clare Kelly, Ph.D.,
>> Leon Levy Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
>> Assistant Director, Phyllis Green and Randolph Cowen Institute for Pediatric
>> Neuroscience,
>> NYU Child Study Center, New York, NY 10016
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>> Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
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>> Co-Founder, The Neuro Bureau
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

Co-Founder, The Neuro Bureau
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