The freesurfer mri* commands can be run from a terminal window remotely via ssh’ing into a machine that has access to a local installation of freesurfer. Hopefully your network connection is robust enough to keep up with your typing in the terminal shell window, and can display continuous output from the freesurfer commands you run.

An X-windows server needs to be available on the machine where freeview runs in order to display the brain graphic images. If you are going to run freeview on a remote machine, then X-Windows forwarding along with (hopefully some accelerated) Open GL graphics rendering is often setup so the images can be rendered there and then forwarded over the network to your machine. That is faster/more efficient then trying to push more of the graphics over the network to be rendered with your local machines graphics hardware. NoMachine, TightVNC, etc. could help with creating that connection.

If you have an IT department, you should check with them to see if they already have specific machines setup for you to remotely login to - including forwarding images from X-Windows apps (like freeview) over the network to your machine.

- R.

On Jan 20, 2025, at 09:57, Fischl, Bruce R.,PHD <BFISCHL@mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

Hi Gonzalo

Can you clarify what you mean? People use ssh all the time to log into remote machines and run recon-all (and freeview)

Cheers
Bruce

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> On Behalf Of Gonzalo Rojas Costa
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2025 7:12 AM
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Subject: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer remotely processing

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Hi:
Is there any free implementation that allows me to process images with freesurfer remotely?
Sincerely

Gonzalo Rojas Costa
Medicine School
Finis Terrae University
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