We took the suggestion of staggering the launch of Freesurfer 5.0 recon-all jobs. The attached Word doc (I don't know how to contribute this information other than attaching the image and text using Word) shows a load graph on our file server. When 20 FS jobs began at once (all processing servers using a single file server) the load on the file server bulged up. When we spaced out the launch of each job by 15 seconds the load hardly budged.

We have not had to do this in the past with earlier versions of Freesurfer but this is an obvious work around to the problem we encountered.

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David Mischel

Manager of IT

Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND)

http://www.cind.research.va.gov/

VA Medical Center

4150 Clement Street, 114M

San Francisco, CA 94121

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