Archive | 2008

  • November 3, 2008

    Pipeline 4.1 supports local and remote execution in the same workflow. For example, you can have modules that run on LONI Pipeline server and also modules run on your local machine. You can connect them, the LONI Pipeline will run the workflow as if they were on the same machine. As always, you can shut down LONI Pipeline while your workflow is running. When you reconnect later, Pipeline will automatically resume your workflow by running the remaining local executions.

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  • November 3, 2008

    Pipeline now has a built-in visualization tool (LONI Viewer) that lets you view results as soon as the execution completes. Simply choose Insert -> New Viewer on the top menu or right click on the workflow canvas and select “New Viewer…”. You can give inputs to this viewer by connecting the input parameter of the viewer to the output of other modules. When the file is ready, a separate Viewer window will pop up with the file to display. You [...]

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  • November 3, 2008

    If you find a bug in Pipeline, you can file a bug report through the Pipeline client. Select Help -> Report a Bug from the top menu bar. If desired, fill out the optional fields for name, email and Pipeline server username. You can also attach the workflow being processed and enter in any details about the bug. Please be as specific as possible in your bug description. You can also post questions on the Forum: http://pipeline.loni.usc.edu/forum/.

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  • September 24, 2008

    Pipeline version 4.1 is now available for download. New features include visualization tool, remote and local execution, find and replace in data modules, and so on. Click here for new feature highlights. There are also bug fixes, for a detailed list of the changes, please see the release notes.

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  • September 24, 2008

    Pipeline users can go to forums to ask and answer Pipeline related questions. You need to register an account before you can post on the forums.

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  • September 24, 2008

    There is a page that lists new feature highlights for Pipeline version 4.1. See more.

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  • September 11, 2008

    The FSL modules in the pipeline library reference wrapper scripts for executables rather than making simple calls to the binaries. This is due mainly to the environmental variables that must be set for proper usage inside LONI’s cluster. The wrapper scripts were created using Microsoft’s Wordpad, which introduced a series of characters unrecognizable by our Linux nodes cause execution failures. This has been resolved by recreating such wrappers entirely on the server side. Please contact pipeline@loni.ucla.edu if additional issues have arisen. [...]

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  • August 22, 2008

    Pipeline version 4.1 Alpha release is now available for internal LONI users. Please contact the Pipeline team if you are interested in testing the new version. See release notes for a list of new features and bug fixes. Public Beta release will be availble in the near future.

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  • May 10, 2008

    Pipeline version 4.0.5 is now available for download.

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  • March 31, 2008

    The problems that had plagued our cluster throughout the weekend and today have finally been resolved. The Pipeline server is running on our Linux cluster minus 30 compute nodes, which we will bring online as quickly as we can throughout the week.

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