https://github.com/aces/cbrain

CBRAIN is a flexible Ruby on Rails framework for accessing and processing of large data on high-performance computing infrastructures.
https://github.com/aces/cbrain

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CBRAIN is a flexible Ruby on Rails framework for accessing and processing of large data on high-performance computing infrastructures.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aces/cbrain
• Owner: aces
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2015-03-24T19:08:42.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-26T17:39:35.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-29T04:04:35.530Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: cbrain, cbrain-api, cbrain-architecture, cbrain-platform, cbrain-service, data-processing, hpc, rails-application, ruby, science
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage:
• Size: 20.3 MB
• Stars: 75
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 50
• Open Issues: 223
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt
  • Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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## CBRAIN

CBRAIN is a collaborative, web-enabled grid platform built to

facilitate research on large, distributed datasets by managing user

access, transfer, caching and provenence for distributed data, as

well as mediating interactions with high-performance computing

centres (HPCs).

## NeuroHub Portal

The NeuroHub Portal is an alternative interface to CBRAIN. It provides a few

special capabilities that are not accessible in CBRAIN, while also

lacking many of CBRAIN's features (because it is fairly new, as of

August 2020). Users can switch back and forth between the two

interfaces, since they share the same authentication and database

systems.

CBRAIN (and the alternative NeuroHub interface) consists of two Ruby on Rails Applications: BrainPortal and Bourreau

## BrainPortal

BrainPortal is the frontend of the CBRAIN architecture. It is a

Rails application that provides a web-based graphical user interface

to CBRAIN. Users can upload, tag and search their files. They can

launch compute-intensive processing jobs on remote High-Performance

Computing (HPC) sites. Remote file repositories can be created to

provide files from any network-enabled system.

## Bourreau

Bourreau is the backend of the CBRAIN architecture. It is a Rails

application that is not meant to serve the user directly. It interacts

with the CBRAIN Brainportal application using XML, acting as an

intermediary between user requests through BrainPortal and the

cluster management software running on High-Performance Computing

sites. A Bourreau receives requests to launch a processing task,

sets up the required working directories, runs the process and then

sends information about any newly created files back to BrainPortal.

A Bourreau can also be queried about the jobs that are currently

running on the HPC where it resides.

## For more information

CBRAIN is extensively documented in its [Wiki](https://github.com/aces/cbrain/wiki).