Computing

dtool and dserver: A flexible ecosystem for findable data

24 October 2025

Talk Johannes Laurin Hörmann Distribits 2025 HdU plenary hall Tool Research data management Reproducibility Metadata Computing

dtool is a lightweight data management tool that packages metadata with immutable data to promote accessibility, interoperability, and reproducibility; dserver makes dtool datasets findable

Datalad Reproducibility for High Performance Computing: The Datalad Slurm Extension

24 October 2025

Talk Andreas Knüpfer Distribits 2025 HdU plenary hall Datalad Other Research data management Computing Data-Science Reproducibility

Datalad run and rerun are incompatible with HPC.

Bridging the Gap Between Storage and Applications: A Modular Concept for Large Image Data Access

24 October 2025

Talk Julia Thönnißen Distribits 2025 HdU plenary hall Big-Data Service Research data management Neuroscience Datalad Computing

Concept for a modular, cloud-native image delivery service enabling access and transformation of large image datasets—bridging storage and applications without data duplication.

BIDS-flux

24 October 2025

Talk Basile Pinsard Distribits 2025 HdU plenary hall Big-Data Collaboration Computing Datalad Git Git-Annex Federation Neuroscience Research data management Service Psychology Data-Science Preservation Privacy Reproducibility Tool

Continuous federated multi-site MRI dataset creation from research instruments to open-publication with a Datalad backbone.

Compute on demand

23 October 2025

Talk Michał Szczepanik Distribits 2025 HdU plenary hall Computing Datalad Git-Annex Neuroscience

Compute-on-demand with a git-annex special remote: an fMRIPrep use case example

fMRI Pipelines on HPC with DataLad and ReproMan

4 April 2024

Lightning talk Joe Wexler Distribits 2024 HdU plenary hall Datalad Git-Annex Computing Neuroscience Tool

In this lightning talk, I will share my experience using DataLad, git-annex and ReproMan to run software pipelines on hundreds of fMRI datasets on an HPC cluster.

Workflow provenance-based scheduling

4 April 2024

Talk Pedro Martinez Distribits 2024 HdU plenary hall Computing Datalad Tool

Scientific computing workflows have become increasingly complex, often comprising of numerous interdependent tasks executed on distributed computing resources.

Balancing Efficiency and Standardization for a Microscopic Image Repository on an HPC System

4 April 2024

Talk Julia Thönnißen Distribits 2024 HdU plenary hall Big-Data Computing Neuroscience Git-Annex Datalad

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges of modern science.