Hi,

On Friday 23rd September, we'll be upgrading the YNiC desktops and cluster machines to a new software release. The main changes are:

* FSL 3.3 will no longer be available * FSL 4.1.4 will be upgraded to FSL 4.1.8 * The default Matlab version will move to 7.12 * python2.5 will move to python2.6 (2.5 will still be available but some modules may be missing)

Unsupported software changes:

* afni will be updated from 20101222 -> 20110610 * freesurfer 4.5 will no longer be available; 5.1 will be available instead (although possibly not immediately, we'll announce this at the time)

This means that on the morning of Friday 23rd, there will be some disruption at YNiC and the remote desktop service will be unavailable.

It is possible that the remote desktop service will remain unavailable for a couple of days after the migration in order to give us extra time to migrate it, although we are aiming to avoid this.

Thanks,

Mark