Posted by
Arne Seitz on
Oct 01, 2010; 9:40pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/imageJ-distributed-computing-tp3686733p3686737.html
I know a lot of people who might be interested in something like this.
Especially multi user facilities which are involved in high throughput imaging.
Two years ago I was facing the problem when I was working at the EMBL. Due to the mass of data (20 GB) it took about three day to analyze these data with ImageJ. In order to speed this process up and make it more stable I developed the following work around: I started ImageJ on upto six different computers and started plugin. This plugin was doing the following: Reading a textfile (which images still needs to be processed), opening the image, calling a makro to process the image, save the results and writing to the above mentioned file (which image it finished processing). As I said more a workaround. But it worked and images could be processed in less than a day. I'm happy to provide the code of the plugin if you are interested.
Cheers
Arne
-----Original Message-----
From: ImageJ Interest Group [mailto:
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Sent: mercredi 29 septembre 2010 22:47
To:
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Subject: Re: imageJ + distributed computing
Is this something many imageJ users would be interested in?
I ask as I am contemplating developing a solution but have no desire to
reinvent the wheel.
Are many people waiting hours/days/weeks to batch process images?
Thanks,
Sean
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:47 AM, suendermann <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as far as I know there is no possibility for ImageJ to distribute processes
> over more than one node/computer. So you have to start ImageJ/Fiji on every
> node/computer separatly. Is that right?
>
> Greetings
> Fred
>
>
> On 26.09.2010 17:21, Albert Cardona wrote:
>
>> 2010/9/26 Sean, Founder CloudSpree<
[hidden email]>:
>>
>>> Does anyone have experience distributing imageJ across multiple computers
>>> or
>>> a cluster to process a very large number of images?
>>>
>>
>> Yes: run ImageJ jobs in shell scripts that setup a Xvfb (virtual frame
>> buffer).
>> At the end, run a closing job that pools all results of the individual
>> jobs.
>>
>> Fiji by the way is able to launch ImageJ without requiring a virtual
>> frame buffer (use --headless option).
>>
>> Albert
>>
>