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CBRAIN: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research

The Canadian Brain Imaging Research Platform (CBRAIN) is a web-based collaborative research platform developed in response to the challenges raised by data-heavy, compute-intensive neuroimaging research. CBRAIN offers transparent access to remote data sources, distributed computing sites, and an arr...

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Autores principales: Sherif, Tarek, Rioux, Pierre, Rousseau, Marc-Etienne, Kassis, Nicolas, Beck, Natacha, Adalat, Reza, Das, Samir, Glatard, Tristan, Evans, Alan C.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24904400
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2014.00054
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author Sherif, Tarek
Rioux, Pierre
Rousseau, Marc-Etienne
Kassis, Nicolas
Beck, Natacha
Adalat, Reza
Das, Samir
Glatard, Tristan
Evans, Alan C.
author_facet Sherif, Tarek
Rioux, Pierre
Rousseau, Marc-Etienne
Kassis, Nicolas
Beck, Natacha
Adalat, Reza
Das, Samir
Glatard, Tristan
Evans, Alan C.
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description The Canadian Brain Imaging Research Platform (CBRAIN) is a web-based collaborative research platform developed in response to the challenges raised by data-heavy, compute-intensive neuroimaging research. CBRAIN offers transparent access to remote data sources, distributed computing sites, and an array of processing and visualization tools within a controlled, secure environment. Its web interface is accessible through any modern browser and uses graphical interface idioms to reduce the technical expertise required to perform large-scale computational analyses. CBRAIN's flexible meta-scheduling has allowed the incorporation of a wide range of heterogeneous computing sites, currently including nine national research High Performance Computing (HPC) centers in Canada, one in Korea, one in Germany, and several local research servers. CBRAIN leverages remote computing cycles and facilitates resource-interoperability in a transparent manner for the end-user. Compared with typical grid solutions available, our architecture was designed to be easily extendable and deployed on existing remote computing sites with no tool modification, administrative intervention, or special software/hardware configuration. As October 2013, CBRAIN serves over 200 users spread across 53 cities in 17 countries. The platform is built as a generic framework that can accept data and analysis tools from any discipline. However, its current focus is primarily on neuroimaging research and studies of neurological diseases such as Autism, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, Multiple Sclerosis as well as on normal brain structure and development. This technical report presents the CBRAIN Platform, its current deployment and usage and future direction.
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spelling pubmed-40330812014-06-05 CBRAIN: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research Sherif, Tarek Rioux, Pierre Rousseau, Marc-Etienne Kassis, Nicolas Beck, Natacha Adalat, Reza Das, Samir Glatard, Tristan Evans, Alan C. Front Neuroinform Neuroscience The Canadian Brain Imaging Research Platform (CBRAIN) is a web-based collaborative research platform developed in response to the challenges raised by data-heavy, compute-intensive neuroimaging research. CBRAIN offers transparent access to remote data sources, distributed computing sites, and an array of processing and visualization tools within a controlled, secure environment. Its web interface is accessible through any modern browser and uses graphical interface idioms to reduce the technical expertise required to perform large-scale computational analyses. CBRAIN's flexible meta-scheduling has allowed the incorporation of a wide range of heterogeneous computing sites, currently including nine national research High Performance Computing (HPC) centers in Canada, one in Korea, one in Germany, and several local research servers. CBRAIN leverages remote computing cycles and facilitates resource-interoperability in a transparent manner for the end-user. Compared with typical grid solutions available, our architecture was designed to be easily extendable and deployed on existing remote computing sites with no tool modification, administrative intervention, or special software/hardware configuration. As October 2013, CBRAIN serves over 200 users spread across 53 cities in 17 countries. The platform is built as a generic framework that can accept data and analysis tools from any discipline. However, its current focus is primarily on neuroimaging research and studies of neurological diseases such as Autism, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, Multiple Sclerosis as well as on normal brain structure and development. This technical report presents the CBRAIN Platform, its current deployment and usage and future direction. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4033081/ /pubmed/24904400 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2014.00054 Text en Copyright © 2014 Sherif, Rioux, Rousseau, Kassis, Beck, Adalat, Das, Glatard and Evans. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sherif, Tarek
Rioux, Pierre
Rousseau, Marc-Etienne
Kassis, Nicolas
Beck, Natacha
Adalat, Reza
Das, Samir
Glatard, Tristan
Evans, Alan C.
CBRAIN: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research
title CBRAIN: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research
title_full CBRAIN: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research
title_fullStr CBRAIN: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research
title_full_unstemmed CBRAIN: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research
title_short CBRAIN: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research
title_sort cbrain: a web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24904400
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2014.00054
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