Medusa
Medusa [1] is a small computational cluster used for neuroscience research by a hardy cohort of scientists at the Institute of Psychology II at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg.
Medusa is tailored to the analysis needs of psychology researchers — running Debian Linux with additional research software provided by NeuroDebian
When you first use Medusa, you will use one machine: the head node. However, Medusa is a collection of servers, with many dedicated computational nodes. In order to use Medusa to its full potential, you will need to become familiar with our job scheduler, Condor.
| [1] | Medusa, the monster from Greek mythology, had living snakes in place of her hair. The head node of the cluster is called "medusa" and each compute node is a "snake" (e.g. snake1, snake2, etc). |