|
Hi. I'm trying to get a general understanding of the architecture of the system: what are all the software components, where will they run, how will we use them, and what are the bandwidth and storage requirements? I have looked at this http://www.humanconnectome.org/connectome/ and this http://www.humanconnectome.org/about/project/informatics.html But there is more than one interpretation; please clarify. Interpretation 1: -the 1200 subjects' data are stored on the connectome server. -the "connectome toolbox" is software running on the connectome server. -users log into the connectome server and run scripts which call "connectome toolbox" functions, to select subjects and scans, set up statistical tests, and produce output images. -the workbench runs on the user's desktop machine (the client). -the workbench downloads the output images created by the "connectome toolbox" running on the server, and displays them (the workbench is analogous to fsl's fslview or freesurfer's tksurfer, with added ftp functionality). (Here only the output images are downloaded, so this option has low bandwidth and client storage requirements). Interpretation 2: -the 1200 subjects' data are stored on the connectome server. -the "connectome toolbox" is command line software running on the user's computer (the client). -the connectome toolbox is used to select and download scans from the connectome server, to set up statistical tests, and to do processing on the client. -the workbench is a client side tool for displaying the images created by the client side "connectome toolbox" (this has high bandwidth and client storage requirements) Interpretation 3: -the 1200 subjects' data are stored on the connectome server. -the workbench runs on the user's desktop machine (the client). -the workbench is used to orchestrate processing on the server (select subjects and scans, set up statistical tests, display output images, all using a GUI). (Here only the output images are downloaded, so this option has low bandwidth and client storage requirements) How will it work? Thanks, Geoff Pope _______________________________________________ |
