Run on SingularityΒΆ

For those who wish to avoid the administrator rights requirements often associated with Docker usage (or the security hazards when used on a shared computing system), Singularity is a good option. Singularity is a container solution just like Docker, except it is designed specifically to offer secure deployment on shared cluster environments.

You can pull a Singularity container much like how you would pull a Docker container:

singularity pull docker://fcpindi/c-pac:latest

This will produce a Singularity container image in your current directory, named something like c-pac_latest.sif. You can instead specify the local filename you want before the docker:// URI.

Running a Singularity image is similar to running a Docker image, except -B maps local directories to a location in the Singularity image instead of -v:

singularity run \
        -B /Users/You/local_bids_data:/bids_dataset \
        -B /Users/You/some_folder:/outputs \
        -B /tmp:/tmp \
        FCP-INDI-C-PAC-master-latest.simg \
        /bids_dataset \
        /outputs \
        participant

Again, you can also provide an AWS S3 link for the data:

singularity run \
        -B /Users/You/some_folder:/outputs \
        -B /tmp:/tmp \
        FCP-INDI-C-PAC-master-latest.simg \
        s3://fcp-indi/data/Projects/ADHD200/RawDataBIDS \
        /outputs \
        participant

As mentioned above, in addition to the default pipeline, C-PAC comes packaged with a growing library of pre-configured pipelines that are ready to use. Once again, you can use the --preconfig flag with Singularity to run any of the pre-configured pipelines. See the full selection of pre-configured pipelines here.

singularity run \
        -B /Users/You/some_folder:/outputs \
        -B /tmp:/tmp \
        FCP-INDI-C-PAC-master-latest.simg \
        s3://fcp-indi/data/Projects/ADHD200/RawDataBIDS \
        /outputs \
        participant \
        --preconfig anat-only