Dear Jens, I can offer just a bit of information and I also have a question. We are using Fedora 11.0 on an x86_64 box and both the Centos 4 and Centos 6 compiles work. The package appears to be self-contained as I have seen no faults on failures to find shared libraries. We simply untar freesurfer to a convenient location and set the PATH and FREESURFERHOME environment variables accordingly. I see no reason why that shouldn't work in a cloud solution except that I do not know what you have in mind as a use for your solution. Will there be a group of users who are provided access so that they can run freesurfer on an image data set through a portal to your cloud? Are you using the cloud to distribute the calculation to many machines? If so, what is the "granularity" of this, e.g. does one freesurfer run get one machine?
Regards, Don Don Krieger, Ph.D. Department of Neurological Surgery University of Pittsburgh (412)648-9654 Office (412)521-4431 Cell/Text > -----Original Message----- > From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto:freesurfer- > boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jens Offenbach > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 5:47 AM > To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > Subject: [Freesurfer] Pipeline/Step Progress Monitoring, Packaging and 5.3.0- > patch > > We are currently working on a solution that brings FreeSurfer in the cloud. > Unfortunately, we are facing a lot of problems. Hopefully, someone can help > me: > > I want to run FreeSurfer on Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10. What package is required to > download (CentOS 4 x86_64 (64b))? Does it work anyway on the Ubuntu family? > > On the FTP server I have found a patch for 5.3.0, but I am not sure how to > apply > it or if I must apply it? The Readme says to replace “mri_segstats”. What > about > the other files “recon-all, fsfast, tksurferfv, …”? > > I want to reduce the archive to its bare minimum, otherwise the automated > deployment process takes too long. It should contain only those files which > are > necessary to execute the pipeline without any viewer or examples. Which files > and folders can be deleted safely? > > The most important issue is to monitor the FreeSurfer pipeline execution. I > know > that the scripts folder contains some status files which offer important data > helping me to monitor the pipeline execution progress of “recon-all”. > Unfortunately, that is not enough… If one step takes e.g. approximately 20 > hours, I have to say something about the progress within this current step. Is > there any possibility to monitor the progress of a single step. We need > something that allows us to say e.g. that Step “CA Reg” has 34 % of its work > done so far which means that the overall pipeline progress is e.g. 63 %. Is it > possible to say that a specific step takes a specific portion of the overall > pipeline execution time. What influences this portion (format or quality of > input, > platform, …)? > > Thank you very much for your help! > > Regards > Jens > > _______________________________________________ > Freesurfer mailing list > Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is > addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail > contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine > at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in > error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and > properly dispose of the e-mail. _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
