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

Fri Apr 6 11:10:49 PDT 2012

i expect to have access to tons of space and cores that we could use at our
discretion, but i'm not sure i'll physically be co-located.  can we make a
G+ hangout for the whole time such that other NBers can participate
remotely?

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Cameron Craddock <cameron.craddock at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I totally agree Pierre ...
>
> -cc
>
> 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.
>
> P
>
>
>
> 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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