1. Laboratory of Neuro Imaging UCLA

2. Site PI: Arthur W Toga Director, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging
Co-Director, Brain Mapping Center
Director, Training Program in Neuroimaging
Editor-in-Chief, NeuroImage
Principal Investigator, CCB

3. Core 2 Team Jagadeeswaran Rajendiran (NAMIC representative)
Arash Payan
Jia Wei Tam
Celia Cheung
Cornelius Chojatkashani
(Neurology representative)

4. Our Contribution Pipeline Software User-driven application development
Collect user requirements/ feedback
Design, develop & maintain product
User-driven application development
Software is continuously evolving with input from internal users and external collaborators
Collaborators have access to LONI resources
Hands-on user training sessions

5. Our Contribution (contd...)
Pipeline Application
Front end to LONI Grid (600 processors)
Dissemination
SIG meetings (every two weeks)
Hands on user training sessions
Documentation/ Wiki/ Manuals

6. NAMIC-specific Participation
Pipeline Application
Allow for extensible data model
Provide robust interface to LONI Grid
Hands on user training sessions
UNC Collaboration
Shape analysis pipelines
NAMIC Kit Interoperability
Slicer 3 integration
SCIRun integration

7. Pipeline v4 Progress Revamped version 4 Client-Server architecture
- Flexible, extensible data model
- Modular redesign
- Powerful threading model
- Minimal Synchronization
- Elegant/ easy to use user interface
- Redesigned XML
Client-Server architecture
- Highly scalable (> 1000 inputs)
Any DRMAA grid with:
- LONI’s Cerebro: Sun Xeon Grid
Sun Microsystems
is collaborating with LONI in Grid development to support the Pipeline

8. SLIPIE Progress Pipeline v4 batch mode In Progress
- Can execute complete (data-bound) workflows using command line (“-e” option)
- Slicer can query Pipeline for list of required parameters
- List of parameters expressed in readable XML
- Allows for binding parameters on the command line
- Batch mode tied to local execution
In Progress
- Getting list of all parameters
- Providing user feedback on progress (status messages)

9. Future Plans Release a robust version NAMIC Kit
Successful integration with Slicer 3/ SCIRun
Provide NAMIC with access to computational resources through Pipeline
Build useful workflows with NAMIC collaborators
Documention/ Manuals/ Wiki
Hands on user training sessions