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

Fri Apr 6 10:39:50 PDT 2012

I totally agree Pierre ...

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On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Pierre Bellec wrote:

> @Marteen that's fantastic. Space shouldn't be an issue. A 3 Tb hard-drive costs like 200$, we could plug a couple of those as a scratch space for the conference. We should certainly talk with Mike about his cluster. I'd also be curious to see if we could register these resources in CBRAIN. As I said, the number of pipelines are limited, but the graphical interface is much more appealing than the SSH sessions we'll be running otherwise. 
> 
> @Cameron I don't have experience with cloud computing services like amazon. My understanding is that they are doing a great job at virtualization, like creating a box of all of your tools, so software installation would not be too much of an issue. But I also had the impression that the transfer speed would suck. If we use large datasets, it may actually be easier to use a small 24 cores server with a local hard drive that has all the data. The large resource I mentioned earlier has 2000 Tb of storage with infinyband, which means *fast* access. I'd be curious to have the opinion of someone who actually used these services for neuroimaging before trying to get free (or cheap) compute hours.
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> Le 6 avril 2012 13:26, MCLAREN, Donald <mclaren.donald at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 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
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> >>
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