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YNiC seminar 23rd February (in B020)
by Rebecca E Millman 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Dear Users This Thursday the Cognitive Neurosciences MSc students will again be giving project proposal presentations for their empirical research projects. Please note that the talks will start at the usual time of 4.15 pm but these talks will take place in Psychology (B020). Please below for details of project titles and speakers. Best wishes Rebecca (1) People or Faces - The neural correlates of recognition - Tim Andrews (fMRI) GUDER, ZEYNEP RICE, GRACE SLEZAK, MARTINA (2) The hippocampus and anxiety: a structural MRI study using Voxel based morphometry - Tom Hartley, Liat Levita BOIS, CATHERINE PAPAKONSTANTINOU, EVANGELIA SMYLLIE, EMMA HEALEY, ANDREW (3) Approach and Avoidance - neural circuitry of pain and pleasure - Liat Levita (fMRI) WALSH, SEAN DANIEL GREAVES, ASHA MARIE PEASE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN ROUND, JASON TONY (4) The neural basis of Deutsch's speech-to-song illusion - Mark Hymers, Rebecca Millman SCHULZE, ANJA YOUNG, MICHELLIE LIU, CAN -- Dr. Rebecca E. Millman York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG Email: rem(a)ynic.york.ac.uk Tel: 01904 435 5373

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YNiC update : Friday 17th
by Gary Green 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Dear Colleagues A brief update. The most important thing that happened today is that the 'Complex and Major Loss' Adjuster visited the site. Tony Morland and I described the situation and gave him a tour of the Centre. It is clear that we are going to get considerable support from the insurers, the disaster recovery team and others. Some good news: 5 of the 6 'partitions' of the main disc storage area have now been rebuilt and verified. As this has been done on hardware that could fail, the data has been written to tape and this has been put in the fireproof/waterproof safe. We already had a backup - now we have two. They will be placed in different locations. Backups of psychmail are now back to the regular four hourly schedule. The vulnerable partition is with ta data recovery team in Surrey. At this point we cannot be optimistic or pessimistic. We just do not know whether this data is recoverable from the discs. We will not know until next Friday at the earliest. Work has started on creating a temporary IT server room. Today, we managed to get our hands on the last 30 3Terabyte discs in the UK that are compatible with our HP hard disc enclosure. Apparently discs are in very short supply. No 2 terabyte discs were available at all. This is due to a flood in Thailand. All the manufacturers have factories within a few miles of each other! Extra drying machines have been installed. We have been told that drying will continue for at least one more week. I hope you can have a reasonably worry free weekend. It is good to see some green lights here again on the front of machines. Gary -- Gary Green York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349 fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356 mobile 07986778954

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Psych mail outage
by Gary Green 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Dear Colleagues You may have just noticed a temporary loss of psych mail. Apologies for that. It was caused by a temporary routing problem, not a failure of a server or discs. At about 18:30 tonight (Thursday), we will have to stop and restart the mail server. This is so that we can reroute cables to and from a network switch that has to be physically moved. This should take approximately 45 minutes. It will increase the resilience of the temporary IT service as we continue to rebuild YNiC. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience that will be caused. Gary -- Gary Green York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349 fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356 mobile 07986778954

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Data at YNiC
by Gary Green 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Dear Users Many users have contacted the ynic team as they are understandably very concerned about their data, programs, documents and other critical material that was stored on the disc arrays at YNiC. The first thing to say is that all of the raw data (MRI, MEG) is safe. Everyday we store this material on tape backups. The same is also true of Users' home and Group/Project home data. The last major complete tape backup was carried out three days before the calamity. But we are hoping not to have to resort to recovery from tape. We are working on forcing the RAID to rebuild itself and this is why we are closing the psych mail service later today. In the meantime we have asked for quotations to replace any damaged equipment. Some good news (well a tiny bit). Some services are now working eg the database, RT and other internal services. These will help us in terms of the recovery plan. The loss adjustor attended the site this morning and is helping formulate this plan. TMS should be available in room 54 on the ground floor of the Biocentre within 24 hours. Next update will be tomorrow, Thursday. Gary Gary Green York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349 fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356 mobile 07986778954

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Urgent : YNiC update : this will affect you
by Gary Green 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Dear Colleagues I am sorry to announce that psych email will have to be suspended for one hour today at 5pm. I am apologise for any inconvenience caused. This is necessary so that we can attempt to salvage another area of disc storage on the RAID arrays. Gary -- Gary Green York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349 fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356 mobile 07986778954

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update on the situation in YNiC
by Gary Green 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Dear Colleagues As promised here is a short update on the current situation in YNiC. We now know that 12 separate leaks occurred from a pressurised water system within the plant area in the top floor of the Biocentre sometime on Sunday. The water had descended throughout the building mainly down the cavity wall of the offices and through the risers. The first we knew of the incident was that one of the disc RAID controllers emailed the IT manager that it was failing. He went straight to YNiC and started evacuating the server area. This prompt action may, I emphasise may, have allowed us to save some equipment. Today we have had building surveyors inspecting the building. We have been informed that we should continue to dehumidify and heat the affected areas for at least a week. A further inspection will take place next Monday, the 20th. New areas of water ingress are appearing so the full extent of the damage has yet to be revealed. The University's insurance manager has attended the site. She is our link to the insurers and we have been informed that a loss adjustor has been appointed and will attend YNiC tomorrow, Wednesday the 15th. Disaster Recovery experts have also been appointed and they will advise on the best methods for dealing with the damage and also with the consequential loss of all the YNiC services, not just IT. We have set in motion a recovery plan. Tony Morland is co-ordinating this and we would be grateful if people could inform him if they are working to particular deadlines, contracts or clinically critical timelines. The recovery plan will, eventually, include contingency planning if recovery is going to be lengthy. Within YNiC we are systematically going through all the equipment to try and establish what is irrevocably lost. We should point out though that we know that all our warranties are void. Therefore we will be discussing our options with the advisors tomorrow about how to recreate a working system that will last the original estimated life. We are attempting to rebuild the RAID arrays. As these contain a very large amount of data this will take time, maybe days. At this stage we are unable to say which, if any, data is lost from the discs. We do know that some discs within the RAID were lost. We do have backups on tape in a fireproof safe. But at the moment we do not have an infrastructure that will allow us to use these backups. The ideal scenario will be that RAIDs will be largely rebuilt but we cannot guarantee that. Moreover, we do not have the network switches, servers and analysis machines that would allow useful access to the discs. We do appreciate that many, many, projects, PhDs, staff, external collaborators will be seriously affected by this. We will do all we can to get a system working as soon as we can. Please note, the current emails services are vulnerable. We even lost service yesterday when another drive failed. Please keep local drafts as often as you can. You will be pleased to note that the MATLAB licence service is now active. Gary -- Gary Green York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349 fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356 mobile 07986778954

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YNiC seminar 16th February (room change)
by Rebecca E Millman 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Dear Users This Thursday the Cognitive Neurosciences MSc students will be giving project proposal presentations for their empirical research projects. Please note that the talks will start at the usual time of 4.15 pm but these talks will take place in Psychology (B020). Please below for details of project titles and speakers. Best wishes Rebecca (1) MEG to faces: is M170 on the blink? - Pat Johnston JOHNSON, EILEANOIR BRIDGET, KOKKINAKIS, ATHANASIOS (2) Cortical mechanisms involved in attention to colour - Alex Wade (fMRI) OLIVER, ZOE, SMITH, AARON, WONG, PEONY (3) Imaging using hyperpolarised molecules - Gary Green ALI, SHELIZA CAMILLERI, JULIA ANN, TROY, DAVID MAURICE, CHEN, JING, ROBERTS, INDIA MELANIE SUZANNE (4) A combined fMRI-TMS study of semantic representation and control - Beth Jefferies (fMRI/TMS) COSTIGAN, ALISON GRACE LIU, YANNAN MURPHY, NICHOLAS GOGOLEV, PAVEL (5) Understanding Misunderstanding - S.A. Rueschemeyer (EEG) STONER, CATHERINE GARDNER, TOM -- Dr. Rebecca E. Millman York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG Email: rem(a)ynic.york.ac.uk Tel: 01904 435 5373

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News about the flood in YNiC
by Gary Green 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Dear Colleagues and Users As you may have heard, there has was a major flood within the Biocentre building on Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately we only found out about this when computers went off line. By that time water had been leaking into our area for about two hours. It took a further three hours before the problems were brought under control. Water came through the ceilings into YNiC and has caused damage within a number of rooms. The most seriously affected area was the server room. Mark Hymers and his colleagues managed to get a large amount of the equipment out of the room but not before some serious damage had been done. We now have to assess the extent of that damage. I am sorry to say that this will take time. We have already emptied water out of many disc drives, servers, network switches and power supplies. In other words we are very badly affected by this flood. The University insurers have been informed and we are waiting for a loss adjustor to come to the site. A very basic set of services have been re-established. These allow psych-mail and ynic-mail to work as we realise that people would have been greatly affected by the loss of those services. But we have to say that these services are not guaranteed. The machines that are running may have been affected by the water damage and may fail. We may also have to change the servers managing these services at short notice. I apologise for any inconvenience that may be caused. We do not have any other services within YNiC. The desktop computers, data-stores (MEG/MRI), remote access, tape-backups and other core services are not available. As the MRI and MEG devices depend on these services they are also not available. The Scratch spaces within the disc space have been affected and some data/analyses will be lost. Water leaked into the TMS area and is also not useable. I am unable at this stage to tell you when these facilities and resources will be available again. As information becomes available I will let you know of any changes. The YNiC open plan area is not accessible. We have used some desks for the temporary server configuration. Cables have had to be run across the floor and as there are no user accessible services we would be grateful if everyone can stay away from YNiC until further notice. This will affect a large number of people. We will try hard to get serive back to normal. at this stage I cannot tell you when this will be. It will certainly take at least two weeks as we will have to order some replacement machines and discs to be able to get anyway close to normal operation. Gary -- Gary Green York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349 fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356 mobile 07986778954

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no YNiC seminar this week
by rem 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Dear Users There will not be a YNiC seminar this week (9th February). Normal service will resume next week when the MSc CN students will be giving project proposal presentations for their empirical research projects. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Rebecca E. Millman Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5DG Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356

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YNiC seminar today
by rem 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Dear Users Today (4.15-5.15 pm) Mark Hymers and Padraig Kitterick will be giving a talk on "Safe levels of noise exposure in MR scanning at YNiC". Please see below for the talk abstract. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca Abstract: In 2011 Mark Hymers, Padraig Kitterick, Rebecca Millman and Quentin Summerfield were awarded a small grant by the Department of Psychology to investigate the feasibility of carrying out auditory fMRI research safely at YNiC. This talk will present the main findings of the work funded by this grant and should be 1) of interest to anyone who uses MRI and 2) of particular interest to those who wish to carry out auditory fMRI experiments. MR scanners generate very loud levels (>105 dB SPL) of noise. Exposure to intense noise can potentially damage hearing and the effects of exposure to very loud sounds are cumulative over the total exposure time. Researchers who use MR scanners must protect their participants against hearing damage by ensuring that exposure to noise levels in MR remain within the UK legal limits. Important considerations that will impact the design of all MRI experiments are 1) the duration of the structural scans/fMRI experiments and 2) the amount of attenuation of unwanted noise provided by hearing protection available at YNiC. For auditory fMRI experiments, researchers must also take into account the effects of adding the presentation level of auditory stimuli to the scanner noise. The talk will provide an overview of the guidelines written by Hymers et al. in the full report and present easy-to-use tools for calculating levels of noise exposure in MRI experiments. -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Rebecca E. Millman Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5DG Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356

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