Engineering:TCON 2010

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2010-01-14

Attendees: Katie Ben Casey Yin Tina Vince Jim Satra Nicole Lauren Hiro Fernando Chris Brian Dominik Ron

• Discussion of parallel processing using ipython for use with NA-MIC CT Colonography collaboration project. (confirmed).
  • As a follow up people may be interested in the Enthought webinar on this topic 3pm eastern on Jan 22, 2010.
  • Need real time processing speed. 10 fps for volume rendering. 5 minutes of image processing (down from 30 minutes)
  • 512x512x1000 voxels
  • GPU solutions or ipython solutions
  • Python package for accessing to Slicer internals in a headless mode, i.e. run Slicer internals from Python instead of running Python from within Slicer
  • iPython distinct from MPI (meet different needs)
  • Microsoft interest in iPython
• Jim fell on the sword to take minutes
• Follow up information from Fernando about the new version of ipython in development:
  • the docs for the in-testing ipython are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/bzr.r1321/
  • and downloads in various formats are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/
  • Note: the files with .bzr.r1321 in the names are the relevant ones for

today's call, NOT the 'nightly' ones.