Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-18 Thread Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
As requested I removed the AMI image because that image contains a .license file. I can republish the image when we find a solution for the licensing issue. - Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior Netfilter SpeedComm Telecom

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi PPJ, I would rather people use FS without licenses than find themselves unable to use it, so why not leave it for now. Can you put a request that they first download a license or register on your website? Alternatively, can you just remove the .license file from the AMI forcing the users

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-18 Thread Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
I have restored the image: 060244368407/FREESURFER51 I'll create a web service that can log the number of instances spawned. Is that ok with you? - Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior Netfilter SpeedComm Telecom --

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-18 Thread Joshua Lee
When I used the AMI, (maybe not Pedro's), so I sftp'd a license file to each instance prior to running an analysis. Not a big deal. I didn't get a new license for each instance, but copied the same one to multiple instances. Joshua 2011/11/18 Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-18 Thread Nick Schmansky
Long term, after we put together an 'official' instance of the AMI with scripts (which might well be an instance that Pedro Paulo created) I think sftp'ing the .license file to each instance is the way to go. The .license file need only apply to the user (not each instance or run). N. On Fri,

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-18 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
hi nick, i really like pedro's idea of tracking through instance tracking as opposed to licenses. on a separate project we are setting up the ability to pull up as many instances as necessary and install whatever software environment that's needed to run your analysis. we'll try to ensure that

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Satra we did originally consider tracking usage in that way, but it seemed invasive and a bit creepy to have FreeSurfer keeping track of what you were up to and reporting back to us, so ultimately we decided not to Bruce On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Satrajit Ghosh wrote: hi nick, i really

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-14 Thread Joshua Lee
Thanks again Pedro. I just ran 220 brains through in day or two using the cloud. Fantastic. The script people have been talking about would have been useful. One thing I didn't realize was that I should have moved the freesurfer subject directory from /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects to the larger

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-14 Thread Nick Schmansky
Glad to hear it works well. To revisit the issue of the license (in the form of the .license file which needs to be in the $FREESURFER_HOME directory and the request of which is used for usage tracking), I think the convention to follow for any publicly available AMI freesurfer instances should

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-14 Thread Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
Ok. I'll label as private this AMI that has .license file. Maybe we can make a tutorial on how to create an AMI instead. - Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior Netfilter SpeedComm Telecom -- www.netfilter.com.br -- For

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-12 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
hi nolan, i think starcluster is a great way to create a cluster on aws. but for those wanting to create a single instance and install things on an ami without actually having a large ami, fabric might be a good option. fabric: http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.3.2/index.html example: (another

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-12 Thread Nolan Nichols
Hi Satra, Fabric does look nice, thanks for pointing it out and for a link to the ipython_in_a_box example. That framework might work for what I had in mind for freesurfer and starcluster, which uses the same idea to keep the initial AMI footprint smaller/flexible. Cheers, Nolan On Nov 12,

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-12 Thread Thomas Ballinger
Satra, the ipython example looks great. The scripts I posted also use fabric for running Freesurfer, but don't download Freesurfer due to it already being installed on Pedro's image. I agree with Satra that individually administered instances might work better for those wishing to run a few cases

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-12 Thread Nick Schmansky
I'm happy to see the work getting the cloud to be feasible. I still need to catch up on this thread but one issue that I'd like to sort out is tracking the license count. Its fine for a new user to use an existing image, but I think there will need to be a way to remind people to request our

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-12 Thread Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
Maybe we can set up a web server in the Martinos center and the AMI Image can authenticate in it. - Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior Netfilter SpeedComm Telecom -- www.netfilter.com.br -- For mobile:

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-12 Thread Thomas Ballinger
Perhaps the AMI image could be without a licence file and uploading one (acquired though normal means) would be required? (I suppose that's the basic solution we're looking for a clean way around) 2011/11/12 Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior p...@netfilter.com.br Maybe we can set up a

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-12 Thread Nolan Nichols
If only running a small number of instances, I think it is reasonable to leave the ami w/o a .license file since it is easy enough to scp it up to the cloud. For running a cluster it would be nice to have a script, perhaps using Fabric, to upload a .license file to each instance in a cluster. As

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-11 Thread Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
I've put together the basic tutorial on getting started using Amazon AWS system: It's in the same place Nick pointed out: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/AmazonCloud - Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-11 Thread Thomas Ballinger
I had previously worked on a script which, given Amazon EC2 credentials, would spin up the instance, upload freesurfer data and run it, then send an email when done - if this would be helpful to anyone I'll bother to finish it, we use local compute resources so I never quite bothered. Now that

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-11 Thread Nick Schmansky
thanks Pedro Paulo! Thomas, yes that script would be useful. A handy 'use case' for a contributor to add to that wiki page would be to show how to use your script to process the 40 tutorial subjects we supply on our site. n. On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 09:11 -0500, Thomas Ballinger wrote: I had

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-11 Thread Thomas Ballinger
I've posted two scripts -- one for starting an instance and one for running freesurfer -- using Pedro's AMI. They're in Python, and require two additional Python packages which are easily installable. If people find this a good starting point, please send me suggestions or code (including

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-11 Thread Nolan Nichols
Thanks, Pedro! I am glad to see that you posted a public AMI for freesurfer. And thanks to Thomas for producin documentation on how to use it. This thread inspired me share a StarCluster AMI (ami-27f1384e in the us-east-1 region) that I built for batch FS jobs, which includes the initial setup

[Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-09 Thread Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
Some weeks ago I was asked about a public image (AMI) to run in the Amazon EC2 infrastructure If you want to use FreeSurfer in the EC2 infrastructure you can use this public AMI: *060244368407/FREESURFER51* Just for your information this AMI can run a recon-all in 23 hours in an Amazon AWS Small

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-09 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
hi pedro, will this work with gpu instances as well? cheers, satra 2011/11/9 Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior p...@netfilter.com.br Some weeks ago I was asked about a public image (AMI) to run in the Amazon EC2 infrastructure If you want to use FreeSurfer in the EC2 infrastructure

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-09 Thread Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
No. This is for non GPU instances -- iOS 5.0 Em 09/11/2011, às 22:28, Satrajit Ghosh sa...@mit.edu escreveu: hi pedro, will this work with gpu instances as well? cheers, satra 2011/11/9 Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior p...@netfilter.com.br Some weeks ago I was asked about a

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-09 Thread Nick Schmansky
Pedro Paulo, thanks for posting the info. i've added this to the Download wiki page, and created a stub page for the Amazon Cloud: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/AmazonCloud i've never set one up so i have no idea how to do it. maybe someone can flesh-out this page as using the ec2

Re: [Freesurfer] Amazon EC2 Version of FreeSurfer 5.1 Available

2011-11-09 Thread Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
Tomorrow I'll post a tutorial. It's quite simple - Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior Netfilter SpeedComm Telecom -- www.netfilter.com.br -- For mobile: http://itunes.apple.com/br/artist/netfilter/id365306441 2011/11/9