[IGSTK-Developers] Data files for IGSTK tests

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com
Thu Sep 1 09:15:44 EDT 2005


Hello,

	I would really encourage you to use rsync(*). The best feature of all 
is that rsync provide incremental file transfer ! Therefore it will only 
download the missing(broken) pieces for the file transfer.

My 2 cents,
Mathieu
(*)http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

David Gobbi wrote:
> Hi Andinet,
> 
> For dashboard testing, CVS is definitely the most
> convenient because the dasboard machines can just
> do a "cvs update" every night to grab the newest
> data.  I think that it would be good to have a
> couple small data sets (i.e. with just two or three
> slices) in cvs for testing the readers.
> 
> It's probably worth looking at the actual file sizes
> involved for full-resolution data sets.
> 
> Typical CT: 512kb per slice, 65Mb per data set
> Typical MR: 128kb per slice, 16Mb per data set
> Typical Fluoro: 10Mb but highly variable
> 
> So even a small collection of full-resolution images
> is going to be close to 100Mb.
> 
> My thoughts are that most of the tests can run fine
> with only a partial data set, so we should have some
> partial data sets in CVS for this purpose.  A data
> directory already exists in CVS: IGSTK/Testing/Data
> 
> For full data sets, I think that ftp is the best
> option because we can eventually write scripts that
> will automatically go to the ftp server and get
> the most recent data sets as part of the "make"
> process.
> 
> With a zip file, it is necessary to grab the entire
> archive even if only a single new file has been added.
> 
> What is DSpace?
> 
>  - David
> 
> 
> --- Andinet Enquobahrie <andinet.enqu at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I would like to bring up the discussion of how we
>>should store data 
>>files used for IGSTK tests.  This is an important
>>issue because of  
>>large size CT scans and other modalities that we
>>will be using for 
>>testing the toolkit and the demo applications. Luis
>>and I had a 
>>discussion on this topic yesterday and we
>>brainstormed the following 
>>options.
>>
>>1) CVS data module
>>
>>Caveat: CVS has been reported to have problems with
>>very large size 
>>binary data.
>>
>>2) Downloadable tar/zip data file ( similar to VTK)
>>
>>2) Dedicated FTP server
>>
>>4) DSpace
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>-Andinet
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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