Appendix

Version Support

Versions of fMRIPrep available on the SCC. (D) marks the default version you get when no version is named — note that it is not the newest build, so pin a version explicitly in your scripts.

Version Notes
v20.2.5 Long-term support release
v21.0.1
22.0.2
23.1.4
23.2.3 (D) SCC default
24.1.1 Used by the RCS data-preparation workshop material
25.2.5 Documented by this guide

Resource Recommendations

Start here. These are the values in the example script:

Resource Request SGE directive
Cores 8 #$ -pe omp 8
Memory 4 GB per core (32 GB total) #$ -l mem_per_core=4G
Wall clock 12 hours #$ -l h_rt=12:00:00
Configuration Cores (-pe omp) Memory Wall clock (h_rt)
Anatomical only (--anat-only)
Volume only (--fs-no-reconall)
Full run, with surfaces

Disk Space

Troubleshooting

Getting Help

Contact Research Computing Services at help@scc.bu.edu.