Clowder: moving neuroscience to the cloud like a herd of cats

[Remi-Gau]

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Greg Kiar

Clowder is a tool which aims to make performing neuroscience computation more accessible, scalable, and portable. Given a set of installable instructions (such as a Docker container/BIDS-App), and a descriptive set of I/O specifications (such as a Boutiques descriptor), Clowder will be able to take any tool and wrap for scalable deployment on the cloud with a single command. Storing data in Amazon's S3 and launching computation through Amazon's Batch, Clowder will enable neuroscientists with limited local computational resources or expertise to process their data in the cloud easily with a variety of tools.

The current repository for this project lives @ https://github.com/gkiar/clowder

The current Dropbox Paper (aka Hackpad) file containing a project description, plan of attack, contributors and more lives @ https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Clowder-WVCurcGb9jHSZRiUlSILd

Join our slack channel #clowder to get involved!