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Jennings Zhang edited this page May 27, 2020 · 13 revisions

Comparison of similar projects: web platforms for distributed scientific computing.

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Project Sponsor Focus Backend > Size Description
ChRIS Boston Children's Hospital, RedHat Neuroimaging Python, Docker idk That's us!
Galaxy Penn State, Johns Hopkins, OHSU, Cleveland Clinic Genomics Python, XML 120 public instances, 9,500 citations "web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research" ... "makes advanced computational tools usable by non experts." (Afgan et. al, 2016) slides
CBrain McGill (Canada) Neuroimaging Ruby, Boutiques (Docker) 500 users Accessing and processing of large data on high-performance computing infrastructures. poster demo
VIP INSA Lyon (France) Neuroimaging Boutiques (Docker) 750 users Web portal for medical simulation and image data analysis on the European Grid Infrastructure. poster
Airavata Apache General Java, ??? ??? Compose, manage, execute, and monitor large scale applications and workflows on distributed computing resources such as local clusters, supercomputers,computational grids, and computing clouds. demo
Flywheel Commercial Medical Matlab, Python, R 14 universities Not open source

ChRIS

http://chrisproject.org/

  • prettiest UI
  • Openshift
  • Swift storage
  • Schema blind, no enforcement of file types

Galaxy

https://usegalaxy.org/

  • Most popular
  • Does not use Docker
  • File types can be denoted

CBrain

http://mcin.ca/technology/cbrain/

  • No workflows (chain tools using directed acyclic graph)
  • No visualization
  • Upload/download using SFTP

VIP

https://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/vip/

  • Very old (2013) yet surprisingly still in use
  • No workflows
  • No visualization

Airavata

https://airavata.apache.org/

Notes incomplete.

Flywheel

https://flywheel.io

Is not open source.

Other

Apache Taverna, no longer maintained.

Not Relevant

These are meant for developers, not users. Workflows are coded up in a programming language (opposed to created in a web browser).