Hi Bill - You should not have a problem at all with the 24 hour limit. Tracula runs independently of the main FS stream (actually has to be run after the main FS stream). Times vary with different configuration parameters and data size, and we should get around to posting some nominal processing times on the wiki soon anyway, but with the basic options none of the 3 steps below should take more than a few hours. Step 3 is the fastest, it takes less than an hour for us. Step 1 is more variable depending on data quality - part of it might run for several tries until it gets things right. Step 2 (FSL's bedpost) can also take less than an hour for a subject if it parallelizes all the subject's slices (it's set up to do that but you may have to modify it to work that way on your cluster).
I hope this helps for now! a.y On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Bill Taylor wrote: > I looked at the wiki and the FAQ but still need an answer. > > In my work to get more of Freesurfer available to researchers > using our cluster, I am concerned about the 48+ hours for a run > on one subject. Our 1700 slots which can run these jobs > only promise a 24 hour time slice before evictions. Is it likely > that all three steps will fit within a 24 hour time frame. > > What are the outside limits for: > Pre-processing > FSL's bedpostX > Reconstructing white-matter (WM) pathways > > If they run over, is it possible to due the > part which runs over in pieces? > > Thanks in advance! There are currently 3 groups > on campus interested in our automation involving > thousands of scans. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
