CBRAIN: A web-based, distributed computing platform for collaborative neuroimaging research

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Sherif, Tarek ^a   Rioux, Pierre ^a   Rousseau, Marc Etienne ^a   Kassis, Nicolas ^a   Beck, Natacha ^a   Adalat, Reza ^a   Das, Samir ^a   Glatard, Tristan ^a,b   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Collaborative platform; Distributed computing; Escience; Interoperability; Meta scheduler; Neuroimaging; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADIAN BRAIN IMAGING RESEARCH PLATFORM; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SECURITY; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIBRARY; NEUROIMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84901447087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00054     Document Type: Article

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