The Center for Functional Imaging (www.cfn.upenn.edu) is a Type 1 Center within the Departments of Radiology and Neurology that provides infrastructure support for functional neuroimaging at the University of Pennsylvania. The CfN is comprised of investigators and staff with a broad range of expertise in neuroimaging including regulatory affairs, MRI methods development, MRI physics and pulse programming, instrumentation, experimental design, computing, and image analysis procedures.

The CfN makes use of distributed resources throughout the University of Pennsylvania, but also houses two data analysis facilities. The CfN cluster is currently spread across three sites in and around HUP: the "downstairs lab" (aka B19 Stemmler), the "upstairs lab" (in 3W Gates), and "the closet" (an actual closet, also in 3W Gates). The two labs have both public and private workstations, while the closet holds things like disk arrays and servers. Here's the rundown on what we have.

* 21.5TB online disk storage in 3 RAID arrays (RAID-5 and "RAID-6") connected via iSCSI SAN
* a 24-slot LTO Ultrium-3 tape library for periodic full backups and nightly incremental backups
* a 10-slot SDLT tape library (our old backup system)
* 40+ CPUs running 32-bit x86 Linux
* gigabit networking in the closet and donwstairs lab, with a high-speed fiber connection between the two labs
* two 50-inch plasma screens for meetings and presentations
* a public (PennNet) server, including web service (apache), mailing lists (mailman), ftp download, source code management
(subversion), calendaring, database hosting, and mediawiki-based wikis

Software and expertise to run a broad range of data analysis procedures is available, including SPM, fixed and random effects analyses, nonparametric analyses, time series extraction, both automated and manual segmentation into regions of interest, Brodmann areas, vascular distributions, VoxBo (developed at Penn), BrainVoyager, FMRIB Software Library, MRIcro, AIR, AFNI, IDL, FSL, Free Surfer, SNAP and others Additional capabilities for large-scale processing are available in the Gee Lab.

The CfN receives additional support from the NINDS funded Neuroscience Neuroimaging Center (P30 NS045839), Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (R24 HD050836) and a generous gift from Mr. John Parker.