TORTOISEV4 on Biowulf

TORTOISEV4 (Tolerably Obsessive Registration and Tensor Optimization Indolent Software Ensemble) is for processing diffusion MRI data.

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Interactive job
Interactive jobs should be used for deb ugging, graphics, or applications that cannot be run as batch jobs.

Allocate an interactive session and run the program.
Sam ple session (user input in bold, example courtesy of M. Okan Irfanoglu, NIBIB):

[user@biowulf]$ sinteractive --cpus-per-task=32 --mem=32g --gres=gpu:v100:1
salloc.exe: Pending job allocation 46116226
salloc.exe: job 46116226 queued and waiting for resources
salloc.exe: job 46116226 has been allocated resources
salloc.exe: Granted job allocation 46116226
salloc.exe: Waiting for resource configuration
salloc.exe: Nodes cn3144 are ready for job

[user@cn3144 ~]$ module load tortoisev4
[user@cn3144 ~]$ cd /data/${USER}
[user@cn3144 ~]$ TORTOISEProcess_cuda -u TESTSCAN/TESTSCAN_LR_DR.nii \
		     -d TESTSCAN/TESTSCAN_RL_DR.nii \
		     -s TESTSCAN/TESTSCAN_T2W_structural_weighted.nii.gz \
                     --gibbs 1 --gibbs_kspace_coverage 1  \
		     --rot_eddy_center  center_slice \
		     --repol 1 --s2v 1 --epi DRBUDDI

[user@cn3144 ~]$ exit
salloc.exe: Relinquishing job allocation 46116226
[user@biowulf ~]$

Batch job
Most jobs should be run as batch jobs.

Create a batch input file (e.g. tortoisev4.sh). Example command below courtesy of M. Okan Irfanoglu (NIBIB):

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=32
#SBATCH --job-name=tortoisev4-test
#SBATCH --mem=32g
#SBATCH --time=12:00:00
#SBATCH --partition=gpu
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:v100:1

module load tortoisev4

cd /data/${USER}/

TORTOISEProcess_cuda -u TEST_SCAN/TEST_SCAN_LR_DR.nii \
                     -d TEST_SCAN/TEST_SCAN_RL_DR.nii \
                     -s TEST_SCAN/TEST_SCAN_T2W_structural_weighted.nii.gz \
                     --gibbs 1 \
                     --gibbs_kspace_coverage 1 \
                     --rot_eddy_center  center_slice \
                     --repol 1 \
                     --s2v 1 \
                     --epi DRBUDDI

Submit this job using the Slurm sbatch command.

sbatch tortoisev4.sh
Swarm of Jobs
A swarm of jobs is an easy way to submit a set of independent commands requiring identical resources.

Create a swarmfile (e.g. tortoisev4.swarm). For example:

TORTOISEProcess_cuda -u TEST_SCAN_01/TEST_SCAN_01_LR_DR.nii \
                     -d TEST_SCAN_01/TEST_SCAN_01_RL_DR.nii \
                     -s TEST_SCAN_01/TEST_SCAN_01_T2W_structural_weighted.nii.gz \
                     --gibbs 1 \
                     --gibbs_kspace_coverage 1 \
                     --rot_eddy_center  center_slice \
                     --repol 1 \
                     --s2v 1 \
                     --epi DRBUDDI
TORTOISEProcess_cuda -u TEST_SCAN_02/TEST_SCAN_02_LR_DR.nii \
                     -d TEST_SCAN_02/TEST_SCAN_02_RL_DR.nii \
                     -s TEST_SCAN_02/TEST_SCAN_02_T2W_structural_weighted.nii.gz \
                     --gibbs 1 \
                     --gibbs_kspace_coverage 1 \
                     --rot_eddy_center  center_slice \
                     --repol 1 \
                     --s2v 1 \
                     --epi DRBUDDI
TORTOISEProcess_cuda -u TEST_SCAN_03/TEST_SCAN_03_LR_DR.nii \
                     -d TEST_SCAN_03/TEST_SCAN_03_RL_DR.nii \
                     -s TEST_SCAN_03/TEST_SCAN_03_T2W_structural_weighted.nii.gz \
                     --gibbs 1 \
                     --gibbs_kspace_coverage 1 \
                     --rot_eddy_center  center_slice \
                     --repol 1 \
                     --s2v 1 \
                     --epi DRBUDDI

Submit this job using the swarm command.

swarm -f tortoisev4.swarm -g 32 -t 32 --partition gpu --gres=gpu:v100:1 --module tortoisev4
where
-g # Number of Gigabytes of memory required for each process ( 1 line in the swarm command file)
-t # Number of threads/CPUs required for each process (1 line in the swa rm command file).
--module tortoisev4 Loads the TORTOISEV4 module for each subjob in the swarm