Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2015-11-24 Thread Yizhou Ma
manconnectome.org < > hcp-users-boun...@humanconnectome.org> on behalf of Yizhou Ma < > maxxx...@umn.edu> > *Sent:* Monday, November 23, 2015 2:08 PM > *To:* arch...@mir.wustl.edu; hcp-users@humanconnectome.org > *Subject:* Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plug

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2015-11-24 Thread Hodge, Michael
interface. Regards, Mike From: hcp-users-boun...@humanconnectome.org on behalf of Yizhou Ma Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 2:08 PM To: arch...@mir.wustl.edu; hcp-users@humanconnectome.org Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2015-11-24 Thread Kevin Archie
Hi, Cherry, As far as I know, the fastest way to download HCP data is still through the Aspera client (unless you’re doing your computing on Amazon AWS, see below). The best guide to this would be the Python tutorial here: https://wiki.humanconnectome.org/display/DataUse/Exploring+ConnectomeDB+

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2015-11-23 Thread Yizhou Ma
Hi Kevin, It's been more than two years and I am wondering if there has been any updates for downloading the HCP data via command line? Thanks, Cherry ___ HCP-Users mailing list HCP-Users@humanconnectome.org http://lists.humanconnectome.org/mailman/lis

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2014-01-23 Thread Marcus, Dan
Hi Yaro, Sorry for the delay in responding. HCP data is not currently exposed on INCF Dataspace, though I think that would be a great thing. We plan to have the upcoming Spring data release available on S3. -Dan On 1/10/14 11:05 AM, "Yaroslav Halchenko" wrote: > >On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Marcus, D

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2014-01-10 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Marcus, Dan wrote: > There are a couple of additional data access methods that we'll be > implementing down the road. Working with the INCF, we'll be making the > data accessible over INCF Dataspace. We will also be putting the packages > up on the Amazon cloud. Thank you D

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2013-08-20 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
It is actually amazing how everyone fell for it... There is a nice article Aspera's fasp Track for High-Speed Data Delivery http://wiki.ssg.uab.edu/download/attachments/15632191/Aspera_faspTrack_for_High-SpeedDataDelivery.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1306354033000&api=v2 quoting Aspera's directo

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2013-08-20 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Archie, Kevin wrote: > > that would be great! Whenever initiating S3 repository for that please > > enable "versioning"... will it be available via HTTP? > The Q1 data was put up on S3 for the OHBM hackathon -- if you have opinions > on how HCP data should be organized on

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2013-08-20 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
hi kevin, i'm curious as to what the limitations were of globus? and whether you looked into owncloud at all? cheers, satra On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Archie, Kevin wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > > While quickly trying to > > find a FOSS alternati

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2013-08-20 Thread Archie, Kevin
On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > While quickly trying to > find a FOSS alternative I ran into a nice overview > http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/HOWTO_move_data.html We looked, we tried, we really did. I spent a few weeks digging into GridFTP and udt, and we have used (maybe

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2013-08-20 Thread Archie, Kevin
Hi, Yaroslav, I'll let Dan handle the first question (but reserve the right to chime in afterwards). On the second question: yes, it's a little baroque, but I've added code to pyxnat to do just that. Check out the hcp-db branch of https://github.com/Human-Connectome-Project/pyxnat , and in par

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2013-08-20 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
That is great -- thank you Kevin. Dan, please forget my question about XNAT REST API URLs ;) Best regards, Yaroslav On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Archie, Kevin wrote: > Hi, Yaroslav, > I'll let Dan handle the first question (but reserve the right to chime in > afterwards). > On the second question: y

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2013-08-20 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Thank you Matthew and Dan for replies! On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Marcus, Dan wrote: > We were unable to find an open source alternative to Aspera that matches > its performance and feature set. I do want to emphasize that the Aspera > client software is free to end users, so while the Aspera infrastruc

Re: [HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2013-08-20 Thread Marcus, Dan
Hi Yaro, We were unable to find an open source alternative to Aspera that matches its performance and feature set. I do want to emphasize that the Aspera client software is free to end users, so while the Aspera infrastructure is commercial (and costly), HCP users will NOT incur any cost. HCP da

[HCP-Users] Is proprietary aspera browser plugin the only way to download the HCP Open data?

2013-08-20 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear HCP Gurus, Aspera client seems to perform really well to utilize the available bandwidth, but it is a closed source proprietary software (although happily using open source libraries such as Qt, which it can do). I wonder if there is any other alternative method to access data, possibly throu