Hi Shannon - Does the original bedpostx run fine on your cluster? You'd
probably have to edit that to get it to work, it's not made to work on
every possible cluster. Bedpostx_seychelles is the modified version that
tracula calls that I've modified from the original FSL version so that it
runs on our clusters.
In either case, trac-all is meant to always be run from the command line,
whether you're on a personal computer (where is runs jobs serially) or a
cluster (where it submits them as jobs using qsub). But probably some
editing will be needed as I said.
Hope this helps,
a.y
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Shannon Buckley wrote:
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> Hi Anastasia,
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> I am trying to run Tracula for the first time in our lab and
> I’m getting errors during step 2 that seem to involve how the program wants
> to be launched via grid. I’ve attached the configuration file I’m using and
> the error message is below...
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> $trac-all -bedp -c /cind/01/users/vhasfcbuckls/PPMI/Tracula.sh
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> Using Freesurfer version 5.1.
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> Subjects Directory is /cind/00/PPMI/Freesurfer/Tracula/
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> Sessions Directory is /home/vhasfcbuckls/sessions
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> INFO: SUBJECTS_DIR is /cind/07/PPMI/Freesurfer/subjects
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> INFO: Diffusion root is /cind/00/PPMI/Freesurfer/Tracula
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> Actual FREESURFER_HOME /cind/01/apps/freesurfer/64bit/freesurfer5.1
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> ln -sf/cind/00/PPMI/Freesurfer/Tracula/PPMI_088_S_3551m00/dlabel/diff/anat_brain_
> mask.bbr.nii.gz/cind/00/PPMI/Freesurfer/Tracula/PPMI_088_S_3551m00/dmri/nodif_brain_mask.n
> ii.gz
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> ln -sf /cind/00/PPMI/Freesurfer/Tracula/PPMI_088_S_3551m00/dmri/dwi.nii.gz
> /cind/00/PPMI/Freesurfer/Tracula/PPMI_088_S_3551m00/dmri/data.nii.gz
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> WARN: Running FSL's bedbost locally - this might take a while
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> WARN: It is recommended to run this step on a cluster
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> bedpostx_seychelles /cind/00/PPMI/Freesurfer/Tracula/PPMI_088_S_3551m00/dmri
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> subjectdir is /cind/00/PPMI/Freesurfer/Tracula/PPMI_088_S_3551m00/dmri
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> Making bedpostx directory structure
>
> Queuing preprocessing stages
>
> Unable to run job: Job was rejected because job requests unknown queue
> "short.q".
>
> Exiting.
>
> Queuing parallel processing stage
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> Unable to run job: Job was rejected because job requests unknown queue
> "long.q".
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> Exiting.
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> Queuing post processing stage
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> Unable to run job: denied: "60" is not a valid object name (cannot start
> with a digit)
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> Job was rejected because job requests unknown queue "long.q".
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> Exiting.
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> Although we DO have a grid, I am trying to test the program for feasibility
> purposes, just on my own system’s terminal, since we aren’t sure how results
> will look with our specific data set (3.0 Tesla Siemens, 64 directional DWI
> @ b=1000, with 1 b0 image). We are very interested in performing
> tractography in T1-space… I am open to running this over the grid, if that’s
> really the best way to do it, but the problem is that I don’t see anywhere
> to specify the name of the queue that should be used for launching the
> program.
>
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> Can you please tell me how to launch this without using the so-called long.q
> and short.q? We typically launch jobs to our grid using our “bash.linux.q”,
> but I haven’t been able to locate a place in the configuration file, or any
> switches to use in the cmd line, to specify that this queue should be used.
> I tried specifically launching Tracula’s step 2 onto our bash.linux.q via
> the cmd line using “qsub”, but received the same old error I had been
> getting. I checked the data independently using “bedpostx_preproc.sh”, and
> it appears that all the required data are set up properly. As far as I can
> tell, the only issue we have is this inability to use the long.q and
> short.q…
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> What do you think?
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> I’ve cc’d our IT specialist, Henry Mensch, who oversees our grid system in
> case you need someone to chime-in with any specific information about how
> our Linux systems are set-up.
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> Thanks very much for your time,
>
>
>
> Shannon T. Buckley
> SRA III - Supervisor
> CIND, UCSF
> 4150 Clement St. (114M)
> San Francisco, CA 94121
> Phone: (415) 221-4810 x4251
> Fax: (415) 386-3954
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