Marc Rousseau

Bio

The slides for Marc Rousseau's invited talk at HPCS2010 may be found here.

Marc Rousseau is part of a team at McGill which has built a distributed platform to integrate compute and data resources from the network of Canadian HPCs and five Canadian brain imaging research centres. GBRAIN, the international extension of the CBRAIN platform, connects four new international brain research partners. This community is given access to a pool of over 42,000 CPU cores distributed across 7 installations. All interactions and data transfers from multiple remote sites are triggered through a simple, secure web interface. Our flexible scheduler API integrates 3 different queuing engines (SGE, PBS, MOAB) and their site specific implementation variations as well as 2 custom engines based on Perl scripts and UNIX commands. To be successful, our platform had to provide flexibility with a small footprint and low installation requirements while providing a robust and scalable framework for the user community. This talk will describe both the specific needs of the brain imaging research community, and our achievements in offering transparent HPC access and data transfers, enhanced collaborations, Virtual Organizations, neuroimaging tools and 2D/3D data visualizations.